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'Knockoff' Browser Extension Hides Sketchy Brands on Amazon (www.404media.co)
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A software developer made a Chrome and Firefox extension called Knockoff that automatically hides, grays out, or filters products from sketchy brands on Amazon, which highlights just how many shady brands are on the platform and how commonly they show up on searches for basic items.

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[–] 3 points 4 months ago (6 children)

They're usually knock offs. They aren't trying to present themselves as an item made by Versace or whatever, but they knock off someone else's idea or product.

That's still a knock off by most any definition.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    It’s not a knockoff unless it’s intended as a copy of a different product. A cheap product in the same category is not a knockoff.

    https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/knockoff

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (4 children)

    The products all do look the same. They're just missing a specific logo or specific pattern. If you invented the ice cream cone, and then I made an ice cream cone that looked the same, only it had little triangle patterns instead of square patterns, it's still a knock off.

    It's like how Oreos were blatant knock offs of Hydrox cookies. But the emblem in the middle of the cookie was different. Still a knock off.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    The difference I think you are missing is that most of these Amazon "knock-offs" are still coming from the primary manufacturer of the product. They sell them to basically anyone and will put their customer's logo on it to be resold as whatever brand they want. The mfr doesn't care what label it has and whether the person buying it knows the company logo on the side or not.

    They (typically) didn't see a successful product and decide to start making a similar product to undercut the original product.

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  • [–] -3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Okay guy, you can define words however you want if that helps you feel good about not knowing the definition of words.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago

    Actually; even using your own Cambridge dictionary definition and examples you linked, it fully shows that I'm correct. Like, just look at the example you provided that talks about a cheap knock off of lord of the rings, for example.

    If you aren't able to understand that, then I guess you're just a bit too dumb to comprehend.

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