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

(9to5google.com)
657 points tantalor | 2 comments | 31 Mar 25 18:28 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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magicalhippo ◴[31 Mar 25 19:20 UTC] No.43538715[source]▶
A couple of YouTubers I watch promoted this and given what I assumed it did, I'm surprised that's all it does.

If it seems to good to be true, it probably is.

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ChocolateGod ◴[31 Mar 25 19:38 UTC] No.43538952[source]▶
How did people think honey was making money?

I think a lot of these YouTubers are pretending to be shocked or caught out.

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1. xboxnolifes ◴[31 Mar 25 20:01 UTC] No.43539224[source]▶
I thought Honey sold consumer shopping data.
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2. ziml77 ◴[31 Mar 25 21:26 UTC] No.43540173[source]▶
Same. It seems like very valuable data since they have access to the individual items in the carts across many sites.