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Comment by drcongo | Hacker News Reader

Downvotes suggest some people failed to understand the comment. A browser extension for avoiding Amazon, that only works in Google's browser. I'm baffled why one tax-avoider is fine while the other is to be avoided.

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I didn't downvote (can't), but it was probably the dismissive snark which didn't add anything to the discussion moreso than the idea that earned the downvote. Also, some people are tired of the reflexive kneejerk company-bashing overall. Most of us can acknowledge that these companies have problems, but to shitcan what appears to be a personal project because it runs in Google Chrome is an overreaction.

It's probably worth noting that this extension relies almost entirely on Google Maps[0], so unless a firefox port uses something else, you're still going to be making calls to Google with your location history no matter what browser it's on.

[0] https://github.com/Bullmeza/BuyNearby/blob/master/script.js

It’s downvoted because the subject of this submission is a chrome extension, not Google.

I thought Chrome was a Google product. My mistake.

Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for a different quality of discussion here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I don't think that's implied, is it? A lot of people already use Chrome to access Amazon and eBay, so they wrote the extension for Chrome. Maybe they'll port the extension to less popular browsers later and they're just prioritizing or maybe they don't think it's worth it. I'd like to try it on Firefox and I'm not installing Chrome just for this but I don't blame them either...

Also worth noting that this extension works on other Chrome-derived browsers, like Brave, or the pure-OSS flavor Chromium.

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