Browser extension
Avahit publishes one extension, Avahit — Add to storefront. It exists so a creator can add a product to their storefront without copying the URL by hand. This page describes exactly what it can and cannot do, because “shopping extension” is a category with a bad reputation and the difference is worth spelling out.
What it does
- You are on a product page, you press the toolbar button, the popup opens with the current tab’s address filled in.
- You confirm, and the product is added to your Avahit account through our API, exactly as if you had pasted the link on the site.
- It shows what we already know about that product: our recorded price history, and cheaper alternatives from our own catalogue.
What it cannot do
The permissions in the manifest are the whole story:
activeTab— reads the address of the tab you are on only at the moment you click the button. Not in the background, not on other tabs, not while you browse.storage— keeps your sign-in token for the extension.scripting— used to read the product title and image from the page you explicitly submitted.host_permissionsis limited tohttps://avahit.com/*and nothing else. It has no permission to run on merchant sites at all.
That last line is the important one. Because the extension cannot execute on a merchant’s domain, it is technically incapable of the practices that got shopping extensions banned from affiliate programmes:
- it cannot rewrite or overwrite an affiliate link anywhere;
- it cannot drop a cookie on a merchant’s site;
- it cannot open a link in the background or fire a click you did not make;
- it cannot inject coupons, overlays or ads onto a store page;
- it cannot read your browsing history or the contents of pages you visit.
The same commitment in policy form is on the no-hijacking page; here it is enforced by the permission model rather than by our promise.
Data it sends
Only what you submit: the product URL, plus the title and image read from that page, sent to Avahit over HTTPS with your account token. No telemetry, no analytics, no third-party services. Your data rights over what ends up on your account are the same as everywhere else — Privacy Policy.
For affiliate networks
We treat the extension as a distinct promotional surface. It is declared as such where a programme requires it, it does not act on merchant domains, and it does not participate in attribution: the affiliate link is created on Avahit, by the creator, after the product is added. If your programme needs a review copy or a written confirmation of the above, write to [email protected] and we will provide both.
Removing it
Uninstall through your browser’s extensions page; nothing is left behind on your machine except the browser’s own record of the uninstall. Removing the extension does not touch your Avahit account or the products you already added.
Questions about the extension: [email protected].