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Re:If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be char... by click170 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @09:03PM (#8565431)
There are browser extensions to automatically compare prices for you already, is there something insufficient about those extensions or is it just that they aren't widely known and used?
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Re:If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be char... by altern8 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @09:37PM (#8565523)
I would say not widely known/used... I didn't know they changed prices like that :-/
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Re:If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be char... by murphm8 on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @09:20PM (#8565471)
Do you have a recommendation for which extension or extensions to use?
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Re:If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be char... by newscracker on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:45AM (#8567509)
Apart from camelcamelcamel, there's also Invisible Hand [1] for Firefox, Chrome and Safari that provides price comparison and updates. I doubt if it can avoid browser sniffing or fingerprinting though. Also, it works only in the U.S., the UK and Germany and it makes money from commissions paid by some retailers.

Any kind of comparison is better than no comparison at all. :)

[1]: http://www.getinvisiblehand.com/

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Re:If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be char... by hsshah on Thursday November 06, 2014 @02:25AM (#8566109)
This is mentioned by someone else on the top as well. I love camelcamelcamel and it's chrome browser extension. You can limit it to be able to run only when you are on amazon domain.
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Re:If you use a Mac or Android, e-commerce sites may be char... by eloisant on Thursday November 06, 2014 @06:14AM (#8566545)
Apparently these browser extensions should spoof various user agents, I'm not sure they do that.

They're mostly about comparing prices from different sites.

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