Honey Loses 3 MILLION Users After Their Shady Behaviour Went Public
Yesterday I put out a story about a browser extension named Honey that’s owned by PayPal which promised you that it would find the best coupon codes for your online purchases. The reality was that not only did it not do that, but it worked with retailers to keep you finding the highest value coupon codes available. IF that wasn’t bad enough, it also stole money out of the pockets of creators. Many of them promoted Honey. As a result, a class action lawsuit has been filed.
In the above story, I said this:
Now let me give you a piece of advice regarding Honey. If you have their browser extension installed, uninstall it now. As in drop what you’re doing and uninstall it. It doesn’t do what it says it does. And given what has come to light about them, you have to wonder what else it might do. Thus removing it is the best course of action for anyone who has it installed.
By looking at The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Chrome Web Store shows that at least 3 million users have uninstalled Honey recently, as the extension had over 20 million users before the video was posted, and is now down to 17 million, dropping roughly 2 million in just the week the video was posted.
That’s just the Chrome Web Store. I can’t do the same search on the Apple side of the fence as they don’t report active users for extensions that are compatible with the Safari web browser. But Firefox does keep track of active users. Here’s a screenshot from yesterday:
This is from December 26th of 2024:
The math says they’ve lost about 100,000 users. That’s a non-trivial amount which reinforces the fact that they are in deep trouble because their revenue model, if you want to call it that, is based on users using the plug in. So it truly sucks to be them. If I were you, I would uninstall their plug in if you haven’t already and add to their pain.
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Honey Loses 3 MILLION Users After Their Shady Behaviour Went Public
Yesterday I put out a story about a browser extension named Honey that’s owned by PayPal which promised you that it would find the best coupon codes for your online purchases. The reality was that not only did it not do that, but it worked with retailers to keep you finding the highest value coupon codes available. IF that wasn’t bad enough, it also stole money out of the pockets of creators. Many of them promoted Honey. As a result, a class action lawsuit has been filed.
In the above story, I said this:
Now let me give you a piece of advice regarding Honey. If you have their browser extension installed, uninstall it now. As in drop what you’re doing and uninstall it. It doesn’t do what it says it does. And given what has come to light about them, you have to wonder what else it might do. Thus removing it is the best course of action for anyone who has it installed.
Apparently 3 million people have done just that:
By looking at The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, the Chrome Web Store shows that at least 3 million users have uninstalled Honey recently, as the extension had over 20 million users before the video was posted, and is now down to 17 million, dropping roughly 2 million in just the week the video was posted.
That’s just the Chrome Web Store. I can’t do the same search on the Apple side of the fence as they don’t report active users for extensions that are compatible with the Safari web browser. But Firefox does keep track of active users. Here’s a screenshot from yesterday:
This is from December 26th of 2024:
The math says they’ve lost about 100,000 users. That’s a non-trivial amount which reinforces the fact that they are in deep trouble because their revenue model, if you want to call it that, is based on users using the plug in. So it truly sucks to be them. If I were you, I would uninstall their plug in if you haven’t already and add to their pain.
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This entry was posted on January 4, 2025 at 8:42 am and is filed under Commentary with tags Paypal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.