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Amazon Smile for charity
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2014 06:59 pmIf you shop on Amazon a lot, consider participating in their Amazon Smile program, whereby they donate 0.5% of the price of your eligible purchases to a charity of your choice. All you have to do is log on to smile.amazon.com instead of amazon.com. More details here.
If you have trouble remembering to use the special URL, this Firefox Addon will automatically redirect all Amazon URLs to Amazon Smile. However, it requires you to remain logged in to Amazon, and it sounds like it may cause issues with some Amazon pages.
As I already had the generic Redirector add-on installed, I've now configured it to redirect me. Rather than redirecting all Amazon URLs, I'm only redirecting the sign-in page: from "https://www.amazon.com/*signin*" to "https://smile.amazon.com". This way I can still browse products without being logged in, and then only log in when I want to buy something. This seems to work ok, but has a drawback in that it doesn't automatically return you to the product you were browsing before logging in. Another drawback is that if you add items to your cart via amazon.com, and then log in to smile.amazon.com, it shows your cart empty. Maybe if that happens to me a few times, it will make me start remembering to log in before adding items to my cart.
If you have trouble remembering to use the special URL, this Firefox Addon will automatically redirect all Amazon URLs to Amazon Smile. However, it requires you to remain logged in to Amazon, and it sounds like it may cause issues with some Amazon pages.
As I already had the generic Redirector add-on installed, I've now configured it to redirect me. Rather than redirecting all Amazon URLs, I'm only redirecting the sign-in page: from "https://www.amazon.com/*signin*" to "https://smile.amazon.com". This way I can still browse products without being logged in, and then only log in when I want to buy something. This seems to work ok, but has a drawback in that it doesn't automatically return you to the product you were browsing before logging in. Another drawback is that if you add items to your cart via amazon.com, and then log in to smile.amazon.com, it shows your cart empty. Maybe if that happens to me a few times, it will make me start remembering to log in before adding items to my cart.