PayPal Honey extension has again "featured" flag in Chrome web store

Honey and similar extensions are just monitoring every activity in the browser. I would have been surprised even if these were moderately successful but never expected them to be sold for billions. I would never have thought people would happily let themselves be monitored like this for deals when everything is on Amazon already

> I would never have thought people would happily let themselves be monitored like this

Enter Facebook and Google.

the point is that the service that honey provides doesn't seem to warrant selling your entire browsing activity. At least facebook and google provide a means of communication that is difficult, sometimes impossible, to provide elsewhere on the internet

Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel will put you in some group e.g. ice cream lovers so when you search Google or scroll Facebook feed they will show you ice cream ads.

At least they had to build elaborate services to lure people in. This honey is just a 1999/2000 idea and tech that somehow made money in this day and age. Weird.

> Honey and similar extensions are just monitoring every activity in the browser.

Is this actually true or just your personal speculation?

Facebook and Google are creating a solution to a problem they themselves created by killing competition and the open web. That's the only reason it may appear that alternative means of communications is "difficult" or "sometimes impossible."