I been reading about this for a few days now.
Can’t trust an add-on.
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Someone has to pay for said add-ons development cost. Just sayin
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PayPal has gotten sleazier and sleazier over the years, even with E.M. out of the picture for a very, very long time and after being spun off from eBay. I’ve resisted using Honey, and now I’m glad. How easily we tend to forget that if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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I normally recommend that online merchants also register for affiliate status with their platforms so that when they promote their product on social media or run a discount, they share their affiliate link to their product, getting a bit of extra coverage for their social media work from the platform that’s getting the sales.
I have never recommended Honey and now never will. Merchant-affiliates are working too hard to let Honey use tricks to steal their affiliate commissions.
Thanks for this @Sundance !
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PayPal was always sleazy. PayPal used to be better at concealing it.
I don’t think PayPal ever admitted a security breach, even though in its early years they were extremely common.
Concealing sleaziness is no longer a requirement on the Internet, and many do not bother.
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I tried Honey and found it so annoying I removed it a few minutes later. it was to intrusive and obnoxious.
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Well, and what we now know is that it’s not even doing the job for consumers that it purports to do.
Not worth it.
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Oddly, I’d never heard of “Honey”, at least in reference to any sort of plug-in/add-on. When I saw the video thumbnail on my YT feed (I’m guessing it’s showing up on everyone’s feed), I thought it had to do with the fad of using honey to, um, “improve performance”.*
Now if I do see it, I won’t bother. Although frankly, I rarely do.
*in case you’ve not heard, eating a honey packet has become a fad at colleges, with some being found to contain the active ingredients from Viagra.
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I had heard of it, but in general I don’t do plugins, besides adblock and that isn’t even working much anymore
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Same, besides Printfriendly
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Strange, I use Paypal all the time and never heard of this Honey thing. Maybe it only shows up on smartphones, while I use my laptop for everything? Or maybe my ad blocker prevented me from seeing it? In any case I don’t find it that onerous to do a quick search myself for coupons/promo codes 
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So many of these coupon browser add-ons and coupon code sites are scams. The only one I use is Rakuten (formerly Ebates), both as a merchant and a direct user. It is unobtrusive and lets me know when I visit a site that pays cash back and provides all current coupon codes. I have been using that for over a decade and have been paid over $3K during that time and their coupon codes are always up to date. As a merchant with an affiliate program, I have come across so many scamming affiliates, like Honey, that steal other affiliates’ commissions, hijack their links and engage in all sorts of fraudulent practices. It gets worse and worse every year… It has gotten to where I get maybe 1 out of every 30 applications that are legitimate affiliates and not scammers or shady companies.
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