Hidden background requests and scraping while idle
The add-on makes background requests to Amazon sites and collects data while idle, with no clear disclosure or opt-out.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 2 August 2022 · last reported 16 September 2026
What's going wrong
Some Firefox users found this add-on sending many requests to Amazon product pages while they were not shopping, including products they had never searched.
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 3 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.