What is Shopping Sidekick?
Shopping Sidekick is a browser add-on which displays advertisements and various offers related to your interests. The application can be installed alongside free program or downloaded directly from shoppingsidekick.com. Like the majority of browser plug-ins, Shopping Sidekick works on such browsing tools as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. Once the application is installed, an add-on is set on the browsers, which means that it starts monitoring your browsing sessions.
What does Shopping Sidekick do?
Shopping Sidekick monitors what websites you browse and what is your major interests on the Internet, and the displays various advertisements, offers and coupons. It is so because of the affiliated third-party companies to which the information about your browsing habits is sent. They analyze the acquired information and display their offers:
Free standard shipping on all bath and beauty purchases.
BOGO EVENT – All throw pillow are now buy one get half off! Restrictions apply.
Buy one Get one free home accessories
These and other offers will be displayed to you as long as you keep the add-on on your browser. It means that you will be provided by the content prepared by third-party that may accidentally receive personally identifiable information gathered while you were browsing the Internet. If you do not want to be monitored and bombarded with various offers and coupons which you do not even need, remove Shopping Sidekick from the system and you browser.
How to remove Shopping Sidekick?
If you want to get rid of Shopping Sidekick, you have to uninstall the application, which you will find as Excellent Coupons in the Control Panel, and then change the settings of the browser. In order not to have a similar application installed, you should always pay attention to the installation wizard which may contain some check boxes enabling you to opt out particular applications bundled with the program want to install. However, in order to remove Shopping Sidekick, which you may regard as adware, follow our instructions given below.
Shopping Sidekick Removal
Windows Vista/7
- Open the Start menu.
- Click on Control Panel.
- Select Uninstall a program.
- Double-click on Excellent Coupons.
Windows XP
- Go to the Start menu - > Control Panel.
- Click on Add or Remove Programs.
- Select Excellent Coupons and click on the Remove button.
Windows 8
- Hover the mouse over the bottom left corner of the screen until a minimized version of your Metro UI or desktop pops up.
- Right-click and select Control Panel.
- Click on Uninstall a program.
- Double-click on Excellent Coupons to remove it.
How to remove Shopping Sidekick from your browsers
Internet Explorer
- Open the browser.
- Press and hold down Alt and then press T.
- Click on Manage Add-ons and select Toolbars and Extensions.
- Disable the unwanted add-on.
Google Chrome
- Open the browser.
- Press and hold down the Alt key and then press F.
- Go to Tools - > Extensions.
- Remove the add-on you do not want to have on the browser by clicking on the trash bin icon.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open the browser.
- Press and hold the Ctrl key, do not release the key and press and hold Shift and then hit the A key to access Add-ons Manager.
- Click on Extensions and remove the unwanted add-on.
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