{"id":17372,"date":"2025-01-05T23:56:06","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=17372"},"modified":"2025-01-05T23:56:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T07:56:06","slug":"alleged-honey-coupon-browser-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/alleged-honey-coupon-browser-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged Honey Coupon Browser Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What fascinating news this was as there is this browser extension called honey which I have heard before where if you install it this extension is supposed to help you find the best coupons available for an online shopping site.  Instead of you searching the whole Internet for the best ones this is supposed to do it for you.  The company, owned by Paypal now, spent a lot of money getting influencers to promote the extension too.<\/p>\n<p>So recently there were some fantastic video investigations done one how the browser extension allegedly changes store affiliate codes from say other online influencers to their own when people are shopping which in turn means they are taking the referral money that should have gone to someone else.  This is apparently done during the process where the consumer just assumes the app is checking for coupons just before they finalize the sale.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vc4yL3YTwWk?si=hEt2LyEZWkb8el7n\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>That is so sneaky if true and it makes more sense overall as you have to wonder how a company can sustain itself if all the are doing is saving people money for free without any kind of request for money.  The other thought could be it is data mining and selling that as a business which many companies do.  Not sure about here of course.  But it\u2019s a valuable lesson too when you are looking to partner with companies who wish to tap into your large userbase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What fascinating news this was as there is this browser extension called honey which I have heard before where if you install it this extension is supposed to help you find the best coupons available for an online shopping site. Instead of you searching the whole Internet for the best ones this is supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[4],"tags":[8710],"class_list":["post-17372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-honey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/honey.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4wc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17372"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17374,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17372\/revisions\/17374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}