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Great. Can we get Amazon to have price sorting work too please? And have it actually accurately show cost per unit across similar products? I have to believe it's deliberately broken in both cases which is fucking annoying.

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TIL...that Privacy Badger extension and uBlock Origin affect the "Sort by" options in Amazon!

I have disabled both of them and got my results properly sorted by "Price: Low to High" while with both extensions on, it defaults to Featured!

This is false information, ublock origin doesn't affect 'Sort by' feature.

It does affect it, at least under Firefox; check your web developer tools.

Here's a tiny portion of a massive error message:

    Error logged with the Track&Report JS errors API(http://tiny/1covqr6l8/wamazindeClieUserJava): {"m":"undefined Unknown error","name":"Error","csm":"v5 ueLogError stack","logLevel":"ERROR","attribution":"APE-safeframe","pageURL":"https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mastering+perl&s=price-asc-rank&ds=v1%3ANxZp5S66jp%2F1FIQyOG0JNqN4D96zzLqBks5YP1xArBo","f":"https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mastering+perl","l":2039,"s":["logError<@https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mastering+perl:2039:60","importScript</script.onerror@https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mastering+perl:2039:267","EventHandlerNonNull*importScript<@https://www.amazon.com/s?k=mastering+perl:2039:230","@https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61ZS63EQSsL.js?AUIClients/AmazonUIjQuery line 44 > eval:1:372"

That error message and associated scripts have nothing to do with displaying items or sorting them. It is pretty clearly at first glance some JS used to track and provide analytics.

I tested in Safari with no extensions, and it's showing a $32 and $19 tub of protein powder mixed in the middle of the $12 ones. It then jumps from $15 to sponsored ones that are $50 to $60. It also about 25% items with zero price at all (like key chains that no one likely wants to buy when searching for protein powder) and requires several clicks to see it available from an "Other Seller". This is a total shit experience and Amazon knows it.

Comparing to FF with both those extensions, the items and their order look identical (minus some ads)

Privacy badger is redundant on top of Firefox's maximum setting for tracker protection and using the available blocklists in uBlock Origin.

Sorting works fine on my side when using uBlock Origin with default settings and default filter lists.

You might have customized uBO beyond default settings/lists, and this is causing your issue. If you think this is a filter issue in uBO, please submit a report using the _chat_ icon in the popup panel[1], this will provide us with all the information we need to start investigating the issue.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Quick-guide:-popup-us...

As far as I'm aware, that feature never worked. Who knows why they even keep it. Surely they don't actually think we're that stupid that we won't notice that the price sorting doesn't work.

The problem is search is incredibly fuzzy and only saved by relevance filtering.

So if you sort by price you get the strangest crap at the cheapest end.

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