Email Finder by ContactOut Chrome Extension Analysis
Web Scraping & Data ExtractionStore listing title: Email Finder by ContactOut – Email Lookup Tool
Chrome extension ID: jjdemeiffadmmjhkbbpglgnlgeafomjo
A Chrome extension that extracts professional contact information from LinkedIn and general websites. It features CRM synchronization, AI-assisted email writing, and automated personalized email campaigns.
Overview
Installs
600K+
Rating
★ 4.4
791 reviews
Languages
1 locales
Includes English
Market analysis
Review-backed positioning, friction, and market signals for this Chrome extension.
Macro category
Web Scraping & Data Extraction
Pricing friction
Moderate review signal
Complaint intensity
High review signal
Listing positioning
The product positions itself as a high-accuracy prospecting tool trusted by 76% of Fortune 500 companies. It emphasizes the ability to find emails and phone numbers on LinkedIn and any company website to turbocharge outreach efforts.
Inferred product pattern
B2B lead intelligence tool combining a proprietary contact database with browser-based scraping and CRM integration.
Review-backed pain points
Users report sudden service outages characterized by infinite loading circles, aggressive enforcement of a 'fair usage policy' leading to account shutdowns, and a lack of transparency regarding free trial expirations.
Observed feature gaps
Lack of clear, public-facing pricing on the website and insufficient explanation for broad browser permissions.
- Recruiters
- Sales Representatives
- Marketers
- Business Development Managers
- Lead prospecting on LinkedIn
- Extracting contact data from company websites
- Syncing leads to CRM/ATS
- Building B2B contact lists
- High utility for prospecting
- Effective lead extraction
- Unexpected account suspensions
- High subscription costs
- Privacy and permission concerns
- Technical instability and loading failures
- Lack of pricing transparency
- Free-tier complaints detected
- Account blocking complaints detected
- Refund complaints detected
- Performance complaints detected
- Privacy complaints detected
- Users report extremely high annual subscription costs (e.g., over $2,000) and a lack of clear pricing links on the official website.
Support
Support is described as unresponsive or unhelpful regarding refund requests and account shutdowns related to fair usage policies.
Reliability
Multiple reports of the extension suddenly stopping work or getting stuck on a loading screen without producing results.
Privacy
Serious concerns regarding permissions to 'read and change all data on visited websites' and reports of unexpected registry keys or launch folder additions on macOS.
- Free entry with paid features
- Account required for core usage
- Limited free usage observed
Store listing facts
- Screenshots: 5
- Videos: 1
- Languages: 1
- Privacy policy
- Developer contact
- Official website
- Support link
- Version: 5.18.3
- Size: 857KiB
- Last updated:
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Links
Website: contactout.com
Privacy policy: https://contactout.com/privacy_policy
Support links: http://contactout.com
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