Reviews for Capital One Shopping: Save Now
Capital One Shopping: Save Now by Capital One Shopping
Review by J-FF
Rated 1 out of 5
by J-FF, 3 years agoThis extension does NOT effectively or accurately do what it claims -- the exaggerated claim masks what it really is: A universal tracker and data collection app for everything you see and do with Firefox. You have to provide an email address to use it! I ran a test based on a purchase I made the day before: I found a specific SSD drive on Amazon with their best price of $74.50 but then looked around and found it on Ebay for $68.00 and bought it there. So today, after installing this extension, I ran the exact same purchase test on Amazon: After the $74.50 price came up on Amazon the Capital One Shopper did NOT pop up with the price of $68.00 on Ebay (or anywhere else).
The access permissions for this extension enable it to collect your PERSONAL, NON-ANONYMOUS data on absolutely EVERYTHING you do in Firefox in real time from all open tabs and searches. Then, by its own admission, immediately sends this personalized data back to Capital One for their use and storage (and ostensibly so they can find you "like, the absolute bestest price EVER!") Sure the user agrees to this during installation, but how many people realize just how invasive it is and that it really does not do what it claims very well? This extension crosses the line into serious privacy abuse and seems like it may even present a security vulnerability to the Firefox platform.
Do not install it and open the account they require for it to operate "just to give it a try" because the second it becomes active in your Firefox it will immediately grab everything it can find and send it to Capital One with your name and email address on it. And they don't let you change the email address you give them when activating the extension.
The access permissions for this extension enable it to collect your PERSONAL, NON-ANONYMOUS data on absolutely EVERYTHING you do in Firefox in real time from all open tabs and searches. Then, by its own admission, immediately sends this personalized data back to Capital One for their use and storage (and ostensibly so they can find you "like, the absolute bestest price EVER!") Sure the user agrees to this during installation, but how many people realize just how invasive it is and that it really does not do what it claims very well? This extension crosses the line into serious privacy abuse and seems like it may even present a security vulnerability to the Firefox platform.
Do not install it and open the account they require for it to operate "just to give it a try" because the second it becomes active in your Firefox it will immediately grab everything it can find and send it to Capital One with your name and email address on it. And they don't let you change the email address you give them when activating the extension.
791 reviews
- Rated 5 out of 5by rdp73667, 21 hours ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by carrie640, 5 days agoThey give you some stupid upfront reward and then you never ever get another one. The "rewards" are nearly impossible to get as most retailers do not participate. The only thing it MIGHT be good for is to autorun coupon codes when you buy something online...but even that mostly fails. Time to uninstall.
- Rated 1 out of 5by skevil, 8 days agoUseless add-on that's only ever installed because of Capital One's bait-and-switch tactic of promising free money. There is no money, uninstall on move on.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Manny Fresh, 15 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13310905, 15 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18535928, a month ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18593563, a month agoThis is a scam add-on. It forces you to create another account, separate to your existing Capital One account. Further to that, it doesn't work in the browser; it forces you to a separate website; the codes almost never work, and when they do, they are conditional. Best avoided.
- Rated 5 out of 5by crice, a month agoSometimes it doesn't give the best discounts, but the times it does, it far outdoes all the times it misses them. Easy to use with no upkeep (so far) and it opportunistically helps me at no cost to me at all! I seriously appreciate it being broke as I am right now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 14522760, 2 months ago
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- Rated 4 out of 5by Michael Nathan, 2 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by geb, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 15595142, 3 months ago
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- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17872939, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17935100, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by CassieA, 3 months agoSo easy..and fun when Capital One Shopping looks for deals for me.
- Rated 5 out of 5by STB, 3 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18802033, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by opeb, 4 months ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Red in Denver, 4 months ago