Thistells the server that I am using Amazon Germany (the value 3 in domainId stands for .de, 1 would have been .com). It also indicates the product I viewed (asin field) and how it was rated by Amazon users. Depending on the product, additional data like the sales rank might be present here. Also, the page scraping rules are determined by the server and can change any time to collect more sensitive data.
You can use this add-on without providing any personal information. If you do opt to share contact information, we will only use it to provide you updates relevant to your tracking requests. Under no circumstances will your personal information be made available to a third party. This add-on does not collect any personal data beyond the contact information provided by you.
Whenever you visit an Amazon product page the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number) of that product is used to load its price history graph from Keepa.com. We do not log such requests.
The extension creates required functional cookies containing a session and your settings on Keepa.com, which is required for session management (storing settings and accessing your Keepa.com account, if you create one). No other (tracking, advertising) cookies are created.
Keepa extension is equipped to collect any information about your Amazon visits. Currently it will collect information about the products you look at and the ones you search for, all that tied to a unique and persistent user identifier. Even without you choosing to register on the Keepa website, there is considerable potential for the collected data to be deanonymized.
The company behind the extension fails to comply with its legal obligations. The privacy policy is misleading in claiming that no personal data is being collected. It fails to explain how the data is being used and who it is shared with. There are certainly companies interested in buying detailed online shopping profiles, and a usable privacy policy needs to at least exclude the possibility of the data being sold.
Interesting. They are using the extension users to scrape Amazon's site for data, which they then put into their databases. They're getting around Amazon API limits by not calling the APIs themselves, they're flagrantly violating Amazon's "do not scrape pages" policy. Keepa is seriously violating Amazon's TOS.
I doubt, however, that them collecting Amazon's catalog info and using your connection to do it, actually violates any privacy policies/requirements though, even with the EUs rather.. stringent.. requirements.
Thanks for the reply! I did uncompress, but I still don't see keepa sending data like this through the WebSocket to the server. It looks like keepa is just sending data from their server, but nothing significant from the client (eg. asin, username, domain, etc.)
1) use firefox with the 'temporary containers' extension. normal amazon browsing is done in temporary throwaway containers by default, and then i have a persistent container where i'm logged in.2) use a user script (via 'tampermonkey' or whatever you like) to inject keepa price tracker iframe into amazon product pages in temp containers. also create a (sanitized) link that can open that product page in the persistent amazon container if you want to buy something. this can be done with 'Open external links in a container' extension.
What's funny about keepa is the fact that it was privately co-developed by Palantir Technologies and NSO Group. This plugin makes no attempt to anonymize data. In fact, this plugin effectively works as a man in the middle-- why go to the trouble of breaking SSL-encrypted data when you can export it to a .csv file in plaintext? The funny thing is that none of us are the targets of their data mining. Palantir and NSO are after VIP data. They don't just leave our data sitting idly in a data farm though. It is neatly, neatly packaged and sold to data brokers. It's impossible to say what happens next. If you are using keepa without a custom script, you may as well send all of your most sensitive information directly to the sketchiest online marketing outfit you can find. How do I know? I helped develop keepa. I quit when I found out what its genuine use case was.
A note: these claims are impossible to verify. Keepa is a product by a Germany-based Keepa GmbH. Supposedly, this company is specialized in software development, so it develops Keepa itself. Neither staffing nor public information indicate any links to other companies. Its privacy policy does not indicate any trading with personal data, and violations would be quite risky under the GDPR.
Keepa is an amazing data tracking software that tracks price history for products on Amazon. It is both a standalone, cloud-based software and a Google chrome extension. They also have extensions and add-ons for other browsers such as Firefox, Opera, Edge, and Safari.
The first main tab inside the Keepa dashboard is the Deals section of the website. This is where you can browse a whole heap of discounted products on Amazon that might be worth grabbing and flipping on another platform, or flipping on Amazon at a later date when the prices increase.
Inside the Data tab on the main Keepa menu, you will find the product finder feature. Keepa's product finder allows you to search the entire database of billions of products based on a multitude of attributes.
With Keepa's product viewer feature, you can import a list of up to 10,000 ASINs or UPC codes (for paid users) and get all the product data you could possibly dream of. You can either copy and paste the ASINs or you can upload a txt or csv file containing the data.
The product best sellers data is straight forward, allowing users to view all the best selling Amazon products by category. This data is updated regularly, every 6 hours. You can also view historical sales data for the best sellers list.
Keepa's top seller list data is the ultimate Amazon competitor spy tool. Once inside the top seller list tab, you can click on any of the merchant names to view specific data and metrics for their storefront.
Under each main category are sub-categories you can explore. So, if you're interested in Home & Kitchen but want to become a major player in Pots & Pans you can find all of the items in that sub-category to try and source.
The great thing about the Keepa browser extension is that once you've installed it on Google Chrome, or your supported browser of choice, data will be shown inside your browser on the Amazon product page.
Not only can you see the Keepa charts at a glance, you can toggle through the tabs to start tracking prices, dive deeper into product data, and even find the same product being sold on eBay in just one click.
When it comes to sourcing and selling products on Amazon, there's a lot of decisions to be made and it's virtually impossible to do so without the correct data. That's why I firmly believe that Keepa is one of the most powerful, if not the most powerful, that you can use in your business.
When you encounter connection problems, you may have installed the extension with a fork of e.g. Firefox or Chromium. In this case consult the section "Other browsers".Depending on the operating system the org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser.json native messaging script file shoud be installed to these locations:
In KeePasSXC's settings, Browser Integration's Advanced tab allows to set a single Custom Browser manually. When enabling that option with a path (possibly one of the above) will copy the manifest file to that location. If you use any other browser the configuration location can vary.
After finding the org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser.json check the path variable inside it. It should point to the exact location to the KeePassXC binary. In Windows this variable can also exists without a path.
Connection between KeePassXC and the browser extension is managed by keepassxc-proxy binary. Make sure this is up and running. If not try to start it manually. If there is no keepassxc-proxy process and you are using Snap, check the section below. Under macOS the binary can be found inside the KeePassXC.app at Contents/MacOS/.
The default socket path has been updated in KeePassXC 2.7.4 Updating or downgrading KeePassXC can cause this socket file to point to a wrong location. When using $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR socket file should exists under /run/user/1000/app/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.BrowserServer and the symbolic link at /run/user/1000/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.BrowserServer for backwards compatibility should point to this file. If /run/user/1000/org.keepassxc.KeePassXC.BrowserServer is not a symbolic link, the file should be destroyed and let KeePassXC to create it again when restarted.
Console tab should now show any error messages the extension writes. If you are a developer and know these things you can use the Sources tab and debug the extension and find the exact point where it fails.
If there's still an error connecting to the extension, check the container permissions by running: flatpak permissions webextensions. Maybe flatpak needs to be installed before (apt-get install -y flatpak). Another command is needed if the permission shows no: flatpak permission-set webextensions org.keepassxc.keepassxc_browser snap.firefox yes. To verify correct permissions, use
Enviroment variables can be checked by running rundll32 sysdm.cpl,EditEnvironmentVariables from Command Prompt as administrator.Alternatively it's found from Control Panel > System and Security > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced > Environment Variables.ComSpec should usually point to C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe, but it should be adjusted for your system. After applying the enviroment variable, logout/login or restarting the system is needed.
Workspace computers might have NativeMessagingUserLevelHosts disabled.In this case Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Edge\NativeMessagingUserLevelHosts is set to zero. Active policies can be checked via edge://policy.
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