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> before finding any evidence for it

Did you see the screenshot with the Amazon ad popup obscuring Google ads?

You mean the screenshot that shows a browser window just about 400px wide in which page content is forced behind the notification window?

Yeah. I saw that too.

Disclosure: I work for Amazon but not anywhere close to the browser plugin team(s).

That’s actually legitimate functionality of this extension. :-)

Note: I am the author of this article.

Covering up your competitors ads with your own sounds a lot like "mess with the web experience at will and for example hijack competitors’ web shops".

Disclaimer: I work for Google Shopping, but not the ads part :)

The whole extension is all about “let’s see when customers go to competition and try to bring them back.” That’s rather shady but it’s exactly the advertised functionality. And I’ve already got the first comment on the blog essentially saying “I don’t care what else they do, this extension gives great suggestions and I love that.” :-)

Yes, but that part is with user consent, so it's an attack on Google and their partners, not an attack on the user.

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