Is Amazon Price Tracker Extension safe?
Amazon Price Tracker Extension routes opened tracked Amazon products through softmate.club with product details in the URL.
When you open a tracked Amazon product from the popup, the extension sends the product ASIN, title, image URL, current price, domain, and affiliate tag to softmate.club in query parameters. This happens for products saved through the extension's Track Price button on Amazon product pages.
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Findings
Amazon Product Clicks Redirected Through softmate.club With Product Data
Clicking a tracked Amazon.com product in the popup opens softmate.club/product with its ASIN, title, image, price, and a fixed affiliate tag, then forwards to Amazon.
Seen for a tracked mouse, ASIN B0DKFGJDCN.
Only amazon.com does this.
- Severity
- Low unwanted
- Type
- Unexpected
- CWE
- CWE-359
- Source
- Dynamic sandbox
You click a tracked Amazon.com product inside the extension's popup to open it.
The product was added earlier by clicking the extension's 'Track Price' button on its Amazon.com page.
The extension opens a new tab to softmate.club/product instead of the Amazon page, with that product's ASIN, title, image URL, and price attached as URL parameters.
softmate.club then forwards the browser on to the actual Amazon product page.
- Product ID (ASIN)B0DKFGJDCN
Identifies the exact Amazon product you were looking at.
- Product titleAfaartcci Wireless Computer Mouse, Ergonomic USB Mouse (illustrative)
The full name of the item you tracked, sent as context to a redirect domain you never chose to visit.
- Product image URLhttps://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61167CbmCKL._AC_SL1500_.jpg (illustrative)
A link to the product's Amazon listing photo, sent along with the redirect.
- Price$5.99
The price you were tracking, shared with a domain outside Amazon.
- Affiliate tagpt26pn-20
A fixed affiliate code identifying this extension as the referrer on every redirect.
Tab navigates through softmate.club, which forwards the browser on to the Amazon product page.
The popup's product-click handler builds the softmate.club redirect URL
ASIN extraction
function extractAsin(url) { if (!url) return null; const match = url.match(/\/dp\/([A-Z0-9]{10})/i); return match ? match[1] : null;}Click handler on a tracked product
document.querySelectorAll(".open-product").forEach(link => { link.addEventListener("click", (event) => { event.preventDefault(); const productUrl = link.dataset.url; const asin = extractAsin(productUrl); const product = trackedProducts.find(p => p.url === productUrl) || {}; const encodedTitle = encodeURIComponent(product.title || "Product"); const encodedImage = encodeURIComponent(product.imgSrc || "https://via.placeholder.com/360x240?text=No+Image"); const priceText = product.currentPrice ? `${product.currencySymbol}${product.currentPrice}` : "N/A"; let hostname = "amazon.com"; try { hostname = new URL(productUrl).hostname.replace("www.", ""); } catch (_) {} const affiliateTags = { "amazon.com": "pt26pn-20" }; if (asin && hostname === "amazon.com") { const tag = affiliateTags[hostname]; const redirectUrl = `https://softmate.club/product?asin=${asin}&title=${encodedTitle}` + `&img=${encodedImage}&price=${priceText}&tag=${tag}&domain=${hostname}`; chrome.tabs.create({ url: redirectUrl }); // opens softmate.club, not amazon.com } else { chrome.tabs.create({ url: productUrl }); // non-amazon.com domains open directly } });});- softmate.club
Affiliate-redirect domain the extension routes you through instead of Amazon; receives the product's ASIN, title, image URL, and price before forwarding to Amazon.
- mc.yandex.com
Yandex Metrika loaded by softmate.club's redirect page; its page-url beacon reflects the full softmate.club/product URL, including product metadata, back to Yandex.
What it can do
Permissions this extension asks for, as declared in version 1.2. Asking for a permission is not a finding on its own - it is what the extension can do if it chooses to.
Read and change your data on every site you visit
*://*/*
Store data in your browser
storage
Show you desktop notifications
notifications
Act on the current tab, but only after you click the extension
activeTab
Run hidden pages in the background
offscreen
See the address and title of every tab you have open
tabs
Where it sends data
Destinations our analysis observed Amazon Price Tracker Extension contacting. Sending data somewhere is not a finding on its own - an extension that syncs your settings has to talk to its own server - but it is where your data can go, and who else it goes to.
- softmate.club
Amazon Price Tracker Extension sends data to softmate.club. No other extension we have analysed sends data here.