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I’m surprised at how many otherwise intelligent people I know have installed the Honey plugin.
I mean, it was pretty obvious from the start who the product was.
It's easy to say in hindsight. Plenty of products initially are great, then some with inevitably sell out to a data farming company or whatever. Now, if you're still using Honey after having heard of this, I don't know what to say.
Honey being one of them, it did start as a simple addon that gathered and automatically tried coupon codes for you. It did exactly what people expected it to do.
But obviously once you start getting hundreds of millions in venture capital funds, and eventually sell yourself to Paypal for 4 billion, it's clear that isn't all you are doing any more.
I did assume in the end that it stole all my shopping data, and probably bunch of browsing history in general, which is why I had it installed in a separate browser, but I didn't expect it to be doing affiliate hacking and ~~blackmailing~~ partner deals for the coupons.
Exactly. I used it for like... 2 years? Then I noticed it started not being as helpful and got rid. But I didn't hear that they'd sold out to PayPal of all people. I'm willing to bet most people didn't either.