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Change alerts fire when nothing has changed

Change alerts fire for pages that did not change, such as after a VPN connection, a repeat update or random redirects, so users stop trusting them.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 28 September 2022 · last reported 17 December 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Firefox users of this page-watching add-on say it sends change alerts even when the monitored page has not changed.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.