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by joshstrange 4129 days ago
What am I missing here? What makes this addon so bad? It looks like it injects buttons/overlays to show "lower" prices of items you are already viewing. While I have zero desire to install this addon I'm failing to see what it's doing that makes it deserving of being pulled.
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The add-on from similarproducts.net uses superfish technology.

http://www.similarproducts.net/

> SimilarProducts is a monetization platform that uses Superfish technology to help users find and discover products visually. The technology instantly analyzes images on the web and presents identical and similar product offers.

It _is_ SuperFish, see the about page.
The company is scum, as has been proven the last couple of days. I don't know why anyone (Mozillas Add-On place included) should support them and carry their software.