Sustainable and Ethical Shopping Reviews.

Latest Version

Version
2.22.01
Update
June 20, 2021
Size
879KiB
Developer
Category
Users
85
Rating
5 ★
Manifest Version
2
Web Store Status
Languages Support
English
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Permissions
Https://www.google.com/shopping/*
Storage
UnlimitedStorage
Background
Tabs
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Shopping Impact Extension

What is Shopping Impact and why should you use it? Let's consider through a thought experiment.

Suppose you have ethical concerns, you don't want to support businesses that don't reflect your values. Driven by your concerns, you start keeping track of news stories and social media posts from people you trust in a spreadsheet. You start building up a database of companies, brands and products with your \"rating\" for them. When you browse sites or look at products, you open up your spreadsheet and check your rating, taking appropriate action.

Good work, but it is pretty daunting to carry out all this evaluation on your own. So you encourage other people to start keeping their own spreadsheets. Good news, some other folks keep spreadsheets. Now, when you visit a site or look at an offer, you first check your spreadsheet. If there is no entry, you browse through the spreadsheets maintained by people you trust and weigh their input to come up with a rating.

This is all working well for a bit, but soon it becomes tiresome to keep looking up the entries each time you browse. That is not what you want, so you connect the spreadsheet to your browser. Now when you browse, the browser shows you the ratings from you and your advisors each time you visit a site or offer. It shows an icon at the top of the page with the rating and marks up offers to show badges there as well. It reads the page and figures out the company, brand and product id you are examining.

This is pretty reasonable and low effort. But every time you visit a page, all the advisors know about your activity, which does not respect your privacy. Now you change the system to periodically pull down the spreadsheets of advisors you trust and store them locally. The advisors still see your interest in their data, but they no longer see all the places you visit on the web.

This final version of the system is Shopping Impact, a private and free system for applying your ethics as you engage the web. BE SURE TO PIN the extension so you can see the ratings as you browse (search \"how to pin chrome extension\").

Shopping Impact comes with some advisors preinstalled, but you can include data from any advisor you wish, and remove any preinstalled advisor. Preinstalled advisors include:
* Good On You
* Greenpeace Click Clean report
* B-Corp
* US EPA
* UK Gender Pay Gap report

Shopping Impact has data from these advisors for thousands of sites and provides general ratings for the same, but it is only wired to \"understand\" individual product listings on just a few major sites for now. On these sites, Shopping Impact can figure out the brand and product ids for offers you are considering. Understood sites include:
* Google Shopping
* Amazon
* Walmart
* eBay
* Costco
* Target
* Bestbuy
* Macys
Unfortunately, not all sites offer their data clearly. Will be looking to add more, so look for updates on Shopping Impact where you have to approve more permissions since Shopping Impact does not help itself to the content of all sites you visit as other extensions do. We only interact with site content when we are interpreting the offers.

Does Shopping Impact watch you browse? No. You can use the browser diagnostic tools to verify that the only sites called by Shopping Impact are calls to get the advisor data and calls to Google Analytics. Analytics are only collected when you click on the extension and interact with it. That data is only considered in aggregate. We have no way to match it to you.

Whether or not you need Shopping Impact, Shopping Impact needs you! No one person or organization can figure out end to end ethics on the scale of the internet. If you have personal information related to the ethical nature of companies and products, please share it through Shopping Impact. If you know an organization or person with useful information, encourage them to contribute.

Together we build a network of individuals and organizations which can reward ethical behavior and push back on the worst practices that misguided companies carry out. Please join the effort!
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Source Manifest.json

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How to download and manually install Shopping Impact extension for Chrome

Looking for a way to install Shopping Impact extensions for Chrome, you can search for them in the Chrome Web Store, clicking the "Add to Chrome" button, and following the straightforward process.

However, you may need to install Shopping Impact extensions manually, this article outlines two simple methods to effortlessly install Shopping Impact extensions, whether they come as unpacked folders in compressed formats like .zip or as .crx files.

Method 1: Download Shopping Impact extension and manually install through Drag &Drop

If you ever need to manually install a Shopping Impact extension for Chrome, don't worry, it's a simple process. Just follow these easy steps, and you will have your extension ready to use in no time.

Step 1: Download the Shopping Impact Extension by clicking the "Download CRX" button on the website.

Look for the Shopping Impact extension you wish to install. Go to the website and download the Shopping Impact extension package, which is usually a .CRX file and comes in a zipped file. Here ".crx" file is the format for Shopping Impact extension that contains all the data.

Step 2: Extract &Arrange Files

Once the file is downloaded, extract that file into its own folder. Similarly, give that extension files a permanent home. In other words, keep it in a folder that you don't accidentally delete it because these files will be needed to make that extension work.

Step 3: Go to the Chrome Extensions Page

Open Google Chrome and in the address bar, type chrome://extensions; it will open the Google Chrome extensions page. Make sure that "My extensions" is selected in the sidebar.

Step 4: Drag and Drop the Extension

Now, go to the folder where you extracted the Shopping Impact extension and drag &drop the extension file from there anywhere onto the extension page within Google Chrome.

Step 5: Complete the Installation

Once you drag and drop the extension file, follow the steps that Google Chrome takes you through. Similarly, if the extension file is of .crx file format, you will be required to review the permissions and then add the extension.

Now, you can manage that added extension as you would like to with any other Chrome extension that you added through Chrome Webstore. Its icon will also appear in the Google Chrome Menu on the right side of the address bar once you activate it.

Method 2: Download Shopping Impact extension for Chrome and install in Developer Mode

This is another method to install Shopping Impact extension manually, but the twist is that here, you install by enabling the developer mode option provided in Google Chrome. This mode is commonly used for testing extensions or running unpublished tools.

Step 1: Download the Shopping Impact extension file

Select and download the Shopping Impact extension by clicking the 'Download CRX' button on the website.

Step 2: Extract the downloaded contents

Convert the file to a ZIP file if it is in CRX format then extract the Shopping Impact extension zip file or folder that you downloaded. Make sure you extract it using the same folder name and keep it safely in another folder, so you don't delete it by mistake. The extracted folder will be needed to keep your Shopping Impact extension running.

Step 3: Open Chrome Extension Setting Page

In the address bar of Google Chrome, type chrome://extensions and open the Chrome Extension Page.

Step 4: Enable Developer Mode

After opening the Chrome Extension page, look at the top right side, and you will find the toggle option of "Developer mode."Simply enable that developer mode option.

Step 5: Load the Unpacked Extension

Once you enable the developer mode option, you will see the menu of Load Unpacked, Pack Extensions and Update. From that, select the option "Load unpacked."

Step 6: Select the Extension Folder

Once the pop-up opens upon clicking Load unpacked, select the Shopping Impact extension directory and click on the "Select Folder "button.

Step 7: Confirm and Install

After you select an extension folder of a Google Chrome extension you're installing manually, confirm its installation for the final time and let the installation complete.

Conclusion

Here we've made a step-by-step guide on How to manually install Shopping Impact extension in 2 ways. We hope this guide proves helpful.

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Ray Cruz (ID: 000000ef4f344ac8) Voted 5 ★ - Updated 04/02/2020 Could be very empowering for people who want to shop conscientiously. More sources would definitely improve the experience as well as the ability for users to choose the data sources.