[NazakiAid]

I use Keepa basic and it has saved me a ton of money. I always just assumed it was scraping the prices from pages I visit, but I didn't know it would automatically fetch Amazon pages in the background. Might just sign out of Amazon, and use a separate browser to purchase from it.

Either way, I have some thinking to do on if I should "keepa" it or not (sorry really bad joke). Maybe I should purposely turn a blind eye and just trust they aren't going to do anything evil nor have some privacy risk due to how useful it is.

[SCNP]

Isn't this always the trade-off? While I do appreciate useful software, it gets tiring that it's almost always at the expense of a little bit of privacy or tracking. Seems like the death of a thousand cuts of our anonymity online. Although, I don't really harbor illusions that we (at least Americans) haven't been tracked since the invention of the credit card. I guess I'm a little jaded at this point as there doesn't seem to be anything I, personally, can do about it and I get a touch of FOMO when I hear about the capabilities of the latest and greatest apps. I understand that data collection is inherently necessary for AI, I just don't like who's in charge of it and making the innovations.

[wheels]

I use the Keepa website and never realized before this article that they even have browser plugins. On the website you can set up price alerts that go out via email or Telegram. That works well enough for me.

[NazakiAid]

I would do that but it's very helpful to also see how often the price changes and goes on sale to know if I am getting "ripped off".

[wheels]

There's a price graph on their website showing the price development over time.

[rafaelm]

Same, I just set up alerts via Telegram and they popup on my phone and desktop client. Didn't know they had a browser extension.