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

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324 points dvh | 1 comments | 08 Mar 25 06:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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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rocketvole ◴[08 Mar 25 14:40 UTC] No.43300606[source]▶
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
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1. soraminazuki ◴[09 Mar 25 13:18 UTC] No.43308858[source]▶
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."