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The price has me leaving to Walmart Online. I recently wanted a blue alarm clock. Amazon was 20$. Walmart Online 10$. I still use Amazon to price check, but I

The price has me leaving to Walmart Online. I recently wanted a blue alarm clock. Amazon was 20$. Walmart Online 10$. I still use Amazon to price check, but I've started price checking numerous competitors. Here is a study we did for baby items, but it was clear online>brick and mortar. Walmart>Amazon https://efficiencyiseverything.com/target-vs-amazon-vs-walmart-and-store-to-store-comparison-baby-items-per-dollar/ https://efficiencyiseverything.com/target-vs-amazon-vs-walma...

Vomzor 7y ago
There’s a plugin for price checking: http://www.shoptimate.com/extension/ http://www.shoptimate.com/extension/
- gnicholas 7y ago
  What's the business model? Are they monetizing browsing history data?
  - Vomzor 7y ago
    Affiliate links.
    - gnicholas 7y ago
      Based on their privacy policy, it looks like they gather aggregate browsing data, which they may be monetizing. But they say that all data gathered is at the aggregate level. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shoptimate/privacy/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shoptimate/pr...
      - patd 7y ago
        Maker of Shoptimate here. As said by others, the business model is simply affiliate links. The gathering of browser data in the privacy policy is to cover things taken by my Apache logs or click statistics (which I sometimes need to charge stores that pay me per click). But I don't monetize this in any shape or form.
        gnicholas 7y ago
        Thanks for responding! That totally makes sense. I am a bit wary about these sorts of things because even my small-time (under 100k users) Chrome extension has had offers for data collection/infiltration. So when I read a privacy policy that doesn't disclaim browsing history monetization, I figure it's probably because it's happening. Glad to hear that's not the case!
  - blang 7y ago
    I'm guessing affiliate links.
  - deleted 7y ago
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Vomzor 7y ago

There’s a plugin for price checking: http://www.shoptimate.com/extension/ http://www.shoptimate.com/extension/

gnicholas 7y ago
What's the business model? Are they monetizing browsing history data?
- Vomzor 7y ago
  Affiliate links.
  - gnicholas 7y ago
    Based on their privacy policy, it looks like they gather aggregate browsing data, which they may be monetizing. But they say that all data gathered is at the aggregate level. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shoptimate/privacy/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/shoptimate/pr...
    - patd 7y ago
      Maker of Shoptimate here. As said by others, the business model is simply affiliate links. The gathering of browser data in the privacy policy is to cover things taken by my Apache logs or click statistics (which I sometimes need to charge stores that pay me per click). But I don't monetize this in any shape or form.
      - gnicholas 7y ago
        Thanks for responding! That totally makes sense. I am a bit wary about these sorts of things because even my small-time (under 100k users) Chrome extension has had offers for data collection/infiltration. So when I read a privacy policy that doesn't disclaim browsing history monetization, I figure it's probably because it's happening. Glad to hear that's not the case!
- blang 7y ago
  I'm guessing affiliate links.
- deleted 7y ago
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