keybraker/reskroutzed

reSkroutzed

reSkroutzed

reSkroutzed is a browser extension that detects and highlights sponsored products on skroutz.gr.

Why use reSkroutzed?

Skroutz has been using dark patterns to mislead consumers into purchasing sponsored products (advertisements). The purpose of this extension is to make it easier for consumers to identify which products are sponsored and which are not, so they can make informed purchasing decisions. It also gives the consumer the ability to hide the sponsored products if they so wish to.

Extra features include:

• Lowest price checker outside of "Buy through Skroutz"
• Product page sponsored flagging and removal
• Frequently bought together sponsored flagging and removal
• Advertisement overview inside of the popup

Manual Installation (for contributing)

To install the extension via GitHub, simply download the source code from this repository, and follow the instructions based on the browser you wish to load it on.

Load on Chrome

npm run build:chrome

and load the build extension by clicking Load unpacked at chrome://extensions/ and clicking on the build/chrome_build folder.

Load on Firefox

npm run build:firefox

and load the build extension from build/firefox_build.zip file.

Contributing

Contributions are always welcome!

If you have any suggestions for improvements or are facing a bug, feel free to submit a pull request.
Pull requests for known problems or ones that solve requests or bugs are very welcome (follow the Manual Installation to start developing!).

License

This extension is licensed under the GNU general public license. See the LICENSE file for more details.

reskroutzed's Issues

Sponsored shelf not counted on the popup since the commit #ef6ab95

Issue:

While the sponsored shelf does exist, it doesn't appear to get counted on the popup file. Until the previous commit on the main repo, this used to work. Tested both on Chrome and Firefox, on a Windows 11 computer.

It was counted normally both on Chrome and Firefox until the above commit, so there must be a breaking change there.

Add a review link on the extension button

Add a review link on the extension button to prompt user to review if they enjoy the application

Redirection button to store page with lowest price

Discussed in #29

^{Originally posted by alexigk December 8, 2023}
A redirection button for when lowest price of a product is not from Skroutz, then directly navigates you to store page with the lowest price.

Wrong number of sponsored-promoted products

Description

There is a case in which both the extension's popup and the relative filter show a wrong number of the counted sponsored/promoted products.
More specifically, if the number of those products are equal to n then the above relative counters are equal to k x n, where k = 2, 4, 8, ....

How to reproduce

• visit https://www.skroutz.gr/c/1105/tablet.html?o=tablet
• toggle the visibility of sponsored/promoted products
• navigate to the second (or any different) page of results
• toggle again the visibility of sponsored/promoted products
• return to the first page of results
• toggle again the visibility of sponsored/promoted products
• check both the filter and the popup elements of the extension

Expected behavior

Well, it depends on the desired functionality. Some logical behaviors would be the following.

• Counters represents the number of sponsored products per page of results (recommended)
• Counters represent the total number of products that a visitor has found so far during his/her navigation

In the screenshot below, I would expect the counter to remain 4.

Screenshot

Environment

• Chrome 112.0
• Ubuntu 22.10

Counter of the Filter element does not indicate the right number of sponsored on the current page

Note: This issue relates to the current version of code (14/04/2023)

Description

There is a case in which the extension's Filter element show a wrong number of the counted sponsored products.
More specifically, if you visit a page of results different from the first, then you will notice that the number of the sponsored products in the Filter element has not been updated accordingly.

How to reproduce

• visit https://www.skroutz.gr/c/1105/tablet.html?o=tablet
• visit the 2nd page of results
• check the counter of the Filter element

Expected behavior

The number/counter of the Filter element should indicate the actual number of sponsored products in the current page.

In the screenshots below, I would expect the counter to be 0 on the second screenshot.

Screenshot

First page of results

Second page of results

Environment

• Chrome 112.0
• Ubuntu 22.10