Pensa

Privacy policy and documentation

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Pensa

Competitor research for people who sell online. While you browse other shops, it names the selling techniques each page uses (crossed-out reference prices, countdown timers, limited-stock messages, spend thresholds, fees added at checkout), shows the shop’s own wording and the numbers behind it, and points out the standouts: techniques a shop is using at full strength.

It reports what a page displayed. It never says a shop lied or broke a rule, and it gives no verdict on whether to copy anything; that is your call.

By default it makes no network requests. Everything it notices stays on your device, and detections are deleted after 30 days by default. There is one optional setting, off unless you switch it on, that shares which shops use which techniques and whether people added the item to their cart. It names the shop’s domain, never the page, and never you.

It asks for access to all https sites when you install it, and Chrome will say so. That permission is broad on purpose: these techniques are not confined to a list of big retailers, and the small shops you compete with are exactly the ones a fixed list would miss. It never runs on banking, health, government or webmail sites, and it sends nothing anywhere unless you turn sharing on. The privacy policy explains how both of those are enforced rather than merely promised.

Pensa was previously published as Vero.