Amazon Brand Detector

A browser extension that identifies Amazon brands and exclusives while you shop online.

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Amazon Brand Detector: Highlighting Amazon Brands & Exclusives

The 'Amazon Brand Detector' is a browser extension designed to highlight Amazon's registered brands and exclusive products on various Amazon domains, including US, Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and UK. It aims to offer transparency to shoppers by identifying items from Amazon brands or exclusives amidst hundreds of thousands of such products that are often not clearly marked as such for the shoppers. Additionally, this extension respects user privacy by not collecting any personal shopping information.

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Extension stats

This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2024-11-15

By: The Markup

Users: 4,000+

Rating: 3.00

(11)

Version: 0.0.9 (Last updated: 2021-12-15)

Creation date: 2021-11-26

Permissions:

tabs
storage
https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/the-markup/tool-amazon-brand-detector@main/extension/data/api_params.json

Size: 186.37K

Email: am*****@themarkup.org

Full description: See detailed description

Other platforms

Not available on Android

Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.

Pros

Works great!
Works as advertised!
Works perfectly! Showed me everything that is Amazon related

Cons

No longer supported.
Does not work.
Unreliable with sporadic highlighting issues.
Error messages and functionality problems.

Most mentioned

No longer works.
Unreliable highlighting.
Works well when functional.

User reviews

No longer supported.

Scott Morris (Scott), 2024-08-18

No longer seems to work at all. Recently noticed that it wasn't highlighting any search results. Removed it, reinstalled it, and yet it still doesn't work. I'd like it back!

Phil Coales, 2022-10-13

Does not work, i found more fake shoppers using google than this extension.

Bigattck Firecat, 2022-09-03

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Amazon Brand Detector requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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