While it does what it says, it also does something sneaky. Are the negative comments coming from naysayers on a clearly popular app, or are most of the users blissfully unaware of the crap they’ve installed? What’s unusual is that this comment stands in stark contrast to its reviews, currently 1324 reviews with an average rating of 4.45 / 5.ĭO NOT INSTALL THIS EXTENSION if you shop on Amazon! It automatically appends their AMAZON AFFILIATE CODE to any URL you visit on Amazon, even replacing existing affiliate codes, essentially stealing affiliate revenue from the actual referrer. If you want to take a closer look at an extension, how do you go about it?īefore you can do anything else with it, you have to acquire it. Search around online and you’ll find multiple links that should work. The link changes from time to time, and its currently this link (replace the underscores with the extensions unique id… it’s in the URL when you open it in the app store, and looks like kkhweldklsejjfpwjgmwkdjflwekfjek).

You might also see suggestions to install it and then find the crx file… if that’s even possible, it’s stupid. The point of this exercise is to inspect it before you install it.Įven better (and easier), install the Chrome extension source viewer.

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