JSON Formatter
Extension Actions
CRX ID
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Status
- Extension status: Featured
Description from extension meta
Makes JSON easy to read and explore
Image from store
Description from store
Automatically prettifies any JSON response opened in a browser tab.
FEATURES:
- **Fast**, even on very long JSON pages
- Dark mode support
- Syntax highlighting
- Code folding and indent guides
- Clickable URLs
- Raw/Parsed toggler
JSON Formatter is proud to support Code.org, a nonprofit that supports our mission to help everyone become better coders. We invite you to help our mission when you are shopping at partner stores, at no cost to you. Support is always optional, and can be permanently disabled at any time. We may get paid commissions from companies and/or affiliate programs on sites visited and/or products purchased while using this browser extension. These commissions/affiliate-payments become the donations that go to your selected charity.
Latest reviews
- Ákos Schneemaier
- Deleted as it begs for money.
- Matthew Oles
- Hijacks shopping cart pages to beg for donations. Insane that anyone thought that was appropriate. Shameful behavior.
- Tyler Corley
- Yeah - so a JSON formatting extension should _probably_ not be doing anything BUT JSON formatting... yet here we are.
- Lewis Eason
- This extension now looks at sites you visit and injects a scammy donation popup into the page. Sketchy af.
- David Felix
- Malware.
- Robert Gres
- Removing because it injects some shady code to all websites I visit
- Nick Barone
- Recently started hijacking checkout flows of all websites to inject their donation scheme. Absolutely unacceptable behavior out of an extension thats only purpose should be to format json.
- Muhammad Awais
- Report Reason: Malware / Malicious Behavior (Bait-and-Switch, Affiliate Hijacking, Spyware) Description: This extension claims to be a simple "JSON Formatter," but the source code reveals it is a trojan containing a massive, hidden affiliate marketing and tracking payload masquerading as a service called "GiveFreely." It abuses the <all_urls> permission to hijack browser requests and track users without consent. Proof of Malicious Behavior found in the source code: Affiliate Link Hijacking: The background worker (worker/worker.js) intercepts web requests to automatically route shopping sessions through affiliate networks (specifically wild.link) to generate unauthorized commissions. Proof: worker.js contains active logic searching for store identifiers, including explicit code to scrape Shopify Store IDs (window.ShopifyAnalytics.lib.trekkie.defaultAttributes.shopId) and intercept checkout pages (keywords: cart, checkout, shopping-bag). Google Search Results (SERP) Manipulation: The content script (content/core.js) actively monitors and injects elements into Google Search results to redirect clicks to affiliate URLs. Proof: content/core.js uses the regex /^https?:\/\/(?:www\.)?google\.[a-z]{2,}(\.[a-z]{2})?\/search\?(?:.*&)?q=[^&]+(?:&.*)?$/ alongside DOM selectors like .yuRUbf a, .MjjYud a to parse and alter Google Search output. Invasive Telemetry and Geolocation Tracking: The extension silently logs browsing habits and sends them to a remote server. It also pings a third-party service to determine the user's exact geolocation without asking for permission. Proof: The code makes unauthorized background fetch() requests to https://geoip.maxmind.com/geoip/v2.1/country/me to profile the user, and sends tracked events (e.g., CHECKOUT-POPUP-SHOWN, CHECKOUT-MERCHANT-IN-RESULTS-FOUND) to cdn.givefreely.com/data/behavioral/.
- Agonys
- Annoying donation popup - whenever something like this is being added it should deliberately ask if you're even interested in things like that and if you do want to show it instead of forcefully displaying it with small text to actually hide it so it's harder to close
- László Monda
- Removing because of donation popups.
- Robbin Benard
- injects donation popups
- Paul Rowell
- Injects donations pages and tracking without consent
- Matej Bošanský
- refereal injection hidden behind donations page.
- Alex Spataru
- It was all good until...it started injecting affiliate popups in the websites I visit.
- Kevin Hingston
- Good extension did a bait and switch and snuck in donation malware. Scumbag.
- Austin Jackson
- malware
- Raine Revere
- Adds an absolutely awful donation popup on random websites and then condescendingly tries to explain that it's "not malware/spyware/adware"!!! There are plenty of ways so support good causes. Interrupting the user with nonconsensual charity ads is the worst. In a JSON Formatter extension of all things! Inspires odium.
- Keane Quibilan
- Begging for donations by hijacking page.
- Dimas López
- Hijacks page with donation modal, very dissapointed.
- Dāvis Kronbergs
- Be aware, it now contains malware popup/hijack
- Lubomir Strachan (II)
- ADWARE disappointed with the donation code injection - uninstalling after many years
- Mitchell Pynn
- disappointed with the donation code injection - uninstalling after many years
- DJ Schaff
- Untrustworthy. Highjacker. Malicious pop-ups. Should be removed.
- Dan Hill
- Hijacks page with donation modal
- ReXDeep (1/37)
- supply chain hijack
- Tim van Gompel
- Since a recent update, it silently highjacks pages with donation modal
- Kamil Sauma
- Highjacks pages with donation model.
- Dan Clarke
- Highjacks pages with donation model.
- Chris Sabanty
- Randomly hijacks a page with a donation modal.
- Alex
- Silently injects some coupon related script to every page you visited. Stay away from this extension.
- Leonardo Beal
- really not acceptable for a json parses extension to inject donation pop-ups in checkout pages. used for many years, until today.
- Milos Levacic
- What a terrible decision to inject tracking code into a JSON formatter extension. Uninstalling, as I now consider this extension to be malware.
- Gary Meehan
- Disappointing to see this was injecting overlays at checkouts for me. Lost all trust. Even if intention may be good, no opt in was not cool. Open Source is hard but this move lost all trust. I suggest finding another plugin.
- Arnold Rodriguez
- Use another extension. https://x.com/wesbos/status/2039355472830939319
- maddada
- Started injecting geolocation tracking and donation UI into websites. Avoid at all costs. This one is better: JSON Alexander.
- v
- Malware. Injects suspicious tracking/advertisement elements into EVERY website you visit
- Jordan Welch
- Extension added trackers, avoid!
- Kyle Ballard
- Began pushing donation pop-up window, needed to track down it was related to this extension.
- Joshua Fredrickson (Orange Pineapple)
- Injects geolocation tracking and hijacks affiliate IDs.
- Javier Olmo Gil
- This should be reported. It is adding mawalre/adware from give-freely creating popups. I have reported it to google. This is a scam.
- Aliaksandr
- SPAM WITH ADS, IMMEDIATELTY REMOVED.
- Mike Weiss
- I had to remove due to the inclusion of this give freely thing. I can't have this on my work laptop.
- Macaulay Guerin
- ANNOOOYIIING ADS EVEN THOUGH DISABLED! THEY SPY ON ME: You’re seeing this message because at some point you installed the JSON Formatter browser extension. JSON Formatter has partnered with Give Freely to bring you a free charitable donation benefit when you shop online at a partner store. This is not malware/spyware/adware; your personal information and browsing behavior is not being collected or shared/sold. As explained in the chrome store description for JSON Formatter, this popup is simply a free offer to help whichever charity you select. And you can easily opt out at any time.
- Sebastian Waschnick
- Was good, until IT FORCED AN OVERLAY for givefreely.com which was not closable. Spamware and ads, just wanted a JSON Formatter.
- Mikhail Vazhnov
- Contains some code that send requests to givefreely.com , I used it for long time but going to delete, because I expected just JSON formatter. Now I can generate similar extension using AI without strange integrations.
- Elvin Feng
- Hijacking with ads
- Артём Абрамов
- This extension shows a shady donation banner on your checkout. Do not recommend. Looks like some kind of dark UI patterns
- Lucien Bos
- Malware injection.
- John DU HART
- Injects advertisements now, author is completely shameless.
- Andrew Benton
- This has started injecting charity donation info on checkout pages. That's absolutely unacceptable for something that's just meant to do json formatting.