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Honey has now lost 4M Chrome users after shady tactics were revealed

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657 points tantalor | 1 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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0rzech ◴[31 Mar 25 19:06 UTC] No.43538563[source]▶
It's ironic that probably the biggest victims were youtubers and other "influencers" who mindlessly promoted this extension to their viewers, for money of course.
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jjice ◴[31 Mar 25 19:12 UTC] No.43538623[source]▶
Genuine question I was wondering when this went down - wasn’t this completely unknown at the time? If that’s the case, I feel like I can’t blame those who promoted it. I don’t have all the info though.
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1. VTimofeenko ◴[31 Mar 25 19:17 UTC] No.43538675[source]▶
I believe there were some rumors that it was happenning, but not too public.

I think I remember seeing a blogpost about Honey extension being a very bad idea from security perspective way before the public outcry and it might had mentioned the attribution(right term?) too.