The Yandex.Market Advisor could be installed as part of other browser extensions (for example, as part of ).
If you do not want to use the Advisor, you can disable or delete it. How to do this, see above.
The advisor can be built into the code of the site where you are researching the product.
The built-in Yandex.Market Advisor cannot be deleted.
The advisor shows prices for a different region. How to fix this?
You can change the region manually:
Select an option Specify region manually.
Make sure your country is selected and then enter the city name.
Click the Confirm button.
How can I disable the popup bar but not disable the button?
Disable the option Notify me of product price offers.
How to disable the popup bar on only some sites?
Disable the panel on one site Disable the panel on multiple sitesAdd website addresses to the block The advisor is disabled for the sites listed below.
If you are unable to disable the Advisor:
it may be part of another extension - disable the Advisor in the settings of this extension or in the block Notifications about better offers.
it can be built into the site code - such an Advisor cannot be disabled.
To find out which Advisor is displayed for you, click on the Advisor pop-up panel.
I didn't find the answer to my question
If you have any problems while working with the Advisor, you can contact support using the form feedback. We ask you to describe the problem that has arisen in as much detail as possible.
Yandex.Advisor is a useful addition that allows you to receive advice on the most profitable products that are sold in various online stores. Profitable shopping recipes are based on reviews, as well as analytical data from the Yandex.Market service.
The service is activated when the user views a product on online store sites. In this case, visiting the page with Yandex.market is not required. The service is built into the browser. If it doesn't work, it means you need to install and configure the add-on. The assistant works successfully on platforms Google Chrome,Opera, Mozilla Firefox. Choose any convenient browser and go to the customer service page.
When profitable products are found, the advisor panel appears automatically under the search bar. To use the proposed recipe, you need to click on the “yes I want” icon. It is located directly on the assistant.
If you need to see specific prices by region, you can click on the icon that appears at the top of the browser. Click on this cart to see the price of the item. The service also allows you to compare rating indicators and read reviews.
The assistant is convenient thanks to the pop-up line; it immediately shows sites offering a better price.
A significant difference in cost, it would seem, for one product immediately appears. However, this difference is often related to modifications in the product offering. Products that are conventionally identical in name often differ in their characteristic features.
The flyout functionality can be disabled by unchecking the “Show notification on pages” option. Mozilla Firefox is distinguished by the absence of this functional feature.
If this option appears when using Firefox, it means that the assistant is built into the code of the site on which you are researching the product. Built-in options on third-party sites cannot be removed by the user.
Yandex Assistant can be disabled on all sites through the Add-ons settings. To do this, you need to find the Yandex Market Advisor in the list of add-ons. Simply set the switch to “Off” or click on the corresponding button.
Service settings allow:
- Determine the city automatically/manually.
- Show/do not show offers from other areas.
- Expand/do not expand list indicators when hovering the mouse.
- Show/hide notifications.
The user can also add specific sites to the list, which allows you to turn off the Advisor for certain pages.
Service settings are also available from the icon located in the top bar of the browser. In the pop-up panel, you can change the add-on as you wish.
The topic is not new at all, but it does not lose its relevance. For those who don't know, let's start with brief description problems.
Who's to blame
A person goes to an online store, finds the product he needs and sees this (a recent example from the Eldorado store):
That is, you work on your store, invest a lot of work and money into it, and Yandex on your website offers to buy the same products from competitors at a lower price. “What a turn!”
So where does this infection come from? There is an extension for browsers “Yandex.Market Advisor”, which Yandex, naturally, gives to users with many of its products.
However, the extension that the user installed himself or received along with all sorts of panels is a smaller part of the problem. The man wanted such an Advisor for himself, the man installed it himself. In this case, it is difficult to make a claim (otherwise it would be possible to sue the developers of absolutely all browser extensions).
We also encountered a problem when adding another TV. Of course, no one installed any Yandex Advisor in their working browser. So how did he appear on the site?
The fact is that Yandex apparently has an agreement with the developers of other popular extensions and secretly integrates its Advisor into their products. In this case, you cannot even remove the extension from the browser (in the usual way), because it is not in the list installed extensions. Most often they complain about the SaveFrom extension, but in our case it was experimentally found that the “Trojan” is located in the friGate extension (it could be any other extension, full list only Yandex knows).
Smacks of spreading malware, doesn't it?
And the problem is also interesting because you have no idea what part of your visitors this thing is showing and how much money it has already stolen from you.
What to do
The topic is complex for a wide audience, so let’s look at an example of how this is implemented in our country (by the way, it’s surprising that most large retail chains at the time of writing this article had not solved or were not solving this problem).
The following header has been added to the .htaccess file (you can add this header in other ways):
That's it, the current implementation of Yandex.Advisor is blocked (they are constantly changing it, so this method is not guaranteed to work in the future).
Actually, let’s look at the components of this line:
- Header set - purpose of the header.
- Content-Security-Policy - type of header to assign.
- default-src - content type (any in this case) for which it will be applied whitelist domains. It would be more correct to use specific types(script-src, img-src, etc.), but then the setup will become much more complicated. By specifying only default-src, we are telling the browser that it can load any type of content from the following domains.
- "self" - we resolve the domain from which the page itself is loaded (i.e. the main one).
- *.televizor-x.ru - allow all subdomains of the televizor-x.ru domain (* - any symbols).
- data: - allow content to be loaded in base64 format and the like (without explicitly specifying this word, it stops loading).
- "unsafe-inline" - if you do not specify this directive, then all JS and CSS built into the page code (inline) will stop working.
- "unsafe-eval" - allows dynamically executed code, like eval().
- https://www.youtube.com, https://yandex.ru, https://mc.yandex.ru, https://yastatic.net - allowed domains of other sites. In this case, they are needed in order for videos to be loaded from YouTube and Yandex.Metrica to work normally.
This method must be used carefully. After adding the basic "default-src "self"" rule, most sites will simply stop working properly. You will have to track (for example, in the developer tools) what exactly has stopped loading and add it to the list. That is, you will need to check absolutely all the functionality of the site on all external and internal pages. This will be especially painful for projects that use a lot of third-party scripts.
A blocked advisor looks like this in the console:
P.S.
There are probably technical specialists here who have a deeper knowledge of this issue. Feel free to leave clarifications and corrections in the comments.
With the advent of everything more online stores, it has become much more difficult for a person to choose one or another product, because the cost can vary quite widely and best option It's not always possible to track. For this purpose, special sites or extensions are created, such as Yandex Market, Hot Line, etc., the main function of which is the availability of certain products in a particular online store, as well as displaying the cost in a separate column where you can choose the cheapest option. It is worth saying that some extensions are installed without the user’s knowledge, and accordingly will interfere with work and reduce the performance of the computer, so the question will be considered here: how to disable Yandex Market Advisor.
As a rule, this extension is built into the three most popular browsers: Google Chrome, Opera, Mozilla Firefox, Yandex Browser. The appearance of this advisor in Internet Explorer, but observing trends in the intrusiveness of the distribution of Yandex products with various software products, most likely it will appear here in the near future (by the way, some users are very annoyed by various inserts of extensions into other installation packages, as well as the constant offer to install a proprietary browser and other components that people do not always need).
The principle of deleting the Yandex Market Advisor is similar in all programs for viewing web pages, but due to the features of the graphical interface of each individual program, some users may experience difficulties. Therefore, we will consider removing this permission in each browser separately.
- open this browser, click on the “Settings” icon and go to the line “ Additional tools", where the item "Extensions" will appear (to go to address bar the following: chrome://extensions/);
- in the displayed window you need to scroll through the entire list and find the Yandex.Market Advisor;
- To disable it, just uncheck the box next to “Enabled”, and if the extension needs to be removed, click on the trash can icon located a little to the right.
- open the browser in question, click on the “Menu” icon, hover over the “Extensions” line and go to “Manage extensions” (for a quick transition, press the button combination Ctrl+Shift+E);
- in the displayed list, find the Yandex.Market Advisor;
- to disable, click on the “Disable” button;
Uninstallation in Mozilla Firefox
- click on the “Settings” icon and go to “Add-ons” (you can enter about:addons in the address bar);
- in the window that appears, also find the position with the Yandex.Market Advisor;
- To disable or delete, you must click on the corresponding button.
Disabling extensions in Yandex browser
- click on the icon that shows three bars (in the upper right corner) and go to the “Add-ons” menu, or type browser://tune in the address bar;
- find the Yandex.Market Advisor and move the slider to the “Off” position.
The only thing that needs to be said right away is that it is impossible to remove the extension in question in the Yandex browser (at least this option is not clearly visible, and this is not mentioned on thematic forums, as well as on the developer’s website). Most likely this is due to the fact that both the browser and the extension were developed by the same company and they did not consider it necessary to separate the service from the program.
Finally, it is worth saying that the capabilities of the advisor can really help you choose the best store to purchase a particular product. If the user does not buy goods via the Internet, it is better to remove the extension.
Today we will look at an interesting phenomenon called “Yandex.Market Advisor”. As the name suggests, this miracle of engineering is directly related to Y.Market and is intended to give you advice. Naturally, only valuable ones.
Several online stores are mentioned within this publication. I’ll say right away: all the sites and products listed were considered as examples. This is not an advertisement. These are not recommendations.
According to the official version:
The Yandex.Market advisor will inform you about the best prices for goods in online stores. When you examine a product on a store’s website, the service analyzes its prices in your region and displays a toolbar with a hint.
In essence, there is no longer a need to visit Yandex Market. It's now built into the browser. Visit stores, and "Advisor" in automatic mode will report a similar product with a lower price. In general, everything is quite decent and wonderful. At least at first glance.
“Advisor” is a browser extension that comes both as part of other extensions and in pure/stand-alone form.
Let's look at this part in more detail.
Anyone can independently install this extension from the official website. There you can also find a very ascetic description of this software. There are no questions on this point. Let's move on.
I didn't install Advisor. Where did I get it from?
The Yandex.Market Advisor could be installed as part of other browser extensions. To find out which extension included your Advisor, click the icon on the panel.
This is what it says in one of the Help sections. What does this mean in practical terms? This means that you can “pick up” “Advisor” completely by accident by installing a browser extension whose developers cooperate with Yandex.
The SaveFrom service, which helps download audio, video and other files from various social networks and file sharing services. Strange collaboration, isn't it? Based on this example, I personally concluded that for the sake of propaganda, Yandex is ready to enter into any alliances. But that's okay.
Now we are in place experienced user, which installs the extension it needs, for example Savefrom.
Select the necessary browsers, disable all kinds additional extensions from Yandex. Let's pay attention to the phrase:
This is how these add-ons are classified. I didn't install them. Accordingly, I did not agree. The Savefrom add-on has been successfully installed. Let's check the list of all extensions:
Nothing extra. I installed both extensions myself. Let's start surfing. Let's take a look at the Euroset website.
“Advisor” on the Euroset website
Let's go to the Patriarch website.
"Advisor" on the Ozon website
Surfing is complete. "Yandex Market Advisor" works. Despite the fact that we did not install it and did not accept any licensing agreements. The complete impression is that my rights were treacherously violated. However, we have not read the agreements with Savefrom. Perhaps such moments are written there? Perhaps, but all the agreements I found on the official website were in English. There was no desire to translate or delve into it.
Distribution seems to have been sorted out. What about the correctness of the “Adviser’s” recommendations?
For me, as a user, the usefulness of certain recommendations is important. Especially given that the very fact of recommendations was imposed on me.
I started with the Nikon D7100 Kit, shown in the screenshot just above. A significant difference in prices is associated with modifications of this product offering. In fact, I should have understood the obvious fact long ago: competition between retailers has given rise to new rules, which include not selling exactly the same product. In other words, most likely you will not find absolutely identical products in 3-5 online stores. These will be modifications. It’s still the same model, but the name will have some other alphanumeric meaning. The characteristics are already different. Consequently, price comparison in this case partially loses its relevance. In Y.Market, all these products can be presented within one card. Or they may go beyond these limits. This rule does not apply to top-end products, such as new iPhone models.
To organize a real test drive for Sovetnik, it makes sense to go through products that do not have their own card on the Market. I will leave this point open to you, the reader. Try it. Draw conclusions. I made my own and I will voice their extreme form further.
Correspondence with the Support Service
At the beginning of May 2015, I met “Adviser”. It is worth noting that at that time he was completely sad. Some of the errors described below have already been fixed. Some continue to surprise.
Your company never ceases to amaze. The adviser came out in a very corporate style.
2. The product also, in general, does not play a role. .
3. All this works surprisingly selectively. On a project under my control, I was able to receive “valuable” recommendations. But I couldn’t reproduce them on projects that the market suddenly recommended to me. Strange thing. I thought the goal was to catch up with traffic? The goal was not achieved.
Thank you for your attention.
End of quote.
Help Desk Response
Hello,
Thank you for your interest in the Advisor service and your review!
Let's answer point by point:
1. Price is not the only criterion for the Advisor when deciding whether to display a price bar. In some cases, the Advisor may show offers with a higher price than indicated on the page.
2. We are working to improve the quality of automatic detection of products, models, brands,
varieties. We will try to take your comment into account.3. By this issue We cannot comment in detail, the algorithms of the Advisor are our trade secret. The Advisor does not give or sell any preferences; we work based on the data provided by Yandex.Market, using general universal principles for searching for product offers.
End of quote
Let's return to practical aspects. Is it possible to disable the “Advisor” installed with the Savefrom extension?
The price bar itself allows you to disable itself for a specific site.
As it turned out, the ability to disable it completely still exists. Let's look at the shutdown process using Mozilla Firefox as an example. In other browsers the process will be approximately the same.
1. Open the list of extensions (for Firefox, go to about:addons)
2. Find the Savefrom extension and go to Settings. The extension page opens
3. Go to Settings again
4. Uncheck the “Advisor” option. To be sure, restart the browser.
5. Done. “Advisor” is not deleted, but neutralized (disabled).
Conclusion
So what is an “Advisor”? Is it worth using? Or should it be avoided?
The answers to these questions are up to you. I installed this extension in a separate browser. And I “keep an eye” on his work. Certain moments make you think.
If we exaggerate and talk about the work of the extension today, then the Support Service was quite honest. Currently, this extension is engaged in the surge and redistribution of traffic. Today you are recommended to switch from the Euroset website to Ozone. And tomorrow, when you visit Ozone, you will be recommended to visit Euroset. Let me remind you that every store located on the Market pays for clicks on links.
The profit for Yandex is obvious.
For the average user/buyer, the service can be both beneficial and detrimental. The comparison algorithm is very selective.
The situation is similar for store owners. Even if you have the most favorable price— Yandex has its own algorithms. Take note and don't get your hopes up.
The logic of the operation of Yandex services has always raised a lot of questions. This service was no exception.
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