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Ask HN: Carbon Credit type system browser extension for online shopping?

by 4d66ba06 on 4/24/20, 9:03 PM with 2 comments

I would love to get charged an extra "Amazon Tax" anytime I am lazy and order from Amazon without researching alternatives and then use that tax to donate to something like organizing workers, almost like a polluter would buy carbon credits to offset.

Any idea if a browser extension like this already exists? A quick Google search doesn't appear to show one.

  • by Antoninus on 4/25/20, 5:58 PM

    I'm working on delivering this feature at the moment with https://impactscope.com/

    The platform isn't live yet so stay tuned.

  • by giantg2 on 4/26/20, 12:00 PM

    This is a little different, but may help in addition to your strategy. If you use smile.amazon.com, then you select a charity for Amazon to donate .5% of your purchase price to.