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

(chromewebstore.google.com)
324 points dvh | 1 comments | 08 Mar 25 06:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.478s | source
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yalogin ◴[08 Mar 25 14:34 UTC] No.43300551[source]▶
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
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mrkramer ◴[08 Mar 25 14:36 UTC] No.43300567[source]▶
> I would never have thought people would happily let themselves be monitored like this

Enter Facebook and Google.

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1. yalogin ◴[08 Mar 25 21:03 UTC] No.43303495[source]▶
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.