Did you see what the tracking code does? If possible, it'll be useful to get access to this.
At some point they signed on with a monetization scheme that:
- Redirected you through its sales attribution url any time you accessed a store (which bounced you to the site's front page instead of your search result)
- Rearranged your search results to put its affiliated stores at the top
- Marketed itself mainly to retailers as an ad network with no mention of browser extensions anywhere.
If it werent for the annoying redirect I probably would have never noticed that something was wrong.
Why hasn't there been a major data theft yet exploiting the permissiveness of the Chrome extension ecosystem, it's a disaster waiting to happen...