# Do you use the Honey browser extension?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Tags:** computer-hardware\
**Created:** [January 3, 2025, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506 "2025-01-03T01:51:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506/41 "2025-01-03T16:45:29Z")

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One of the scams Honey has done is giving you a lower value coupon. It’d find both but companies would pay them to send you the lower value coupon.

I guess you are still saving some money but you could have saved a lot more.

You’re ok with that?

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**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506/42 "2025-01-03T16:57:27Z")

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Yep. If I’m too lazy to look it up myself, I don’t give a shit if it gives me the second best coupon. And most of the time, I can’t be arsed. So it’s really just buying straight off the website with no coupon code vs at least having a coupon code presented to me.

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**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-use-the-honey-browser-extension/1012506/43 "2025-01-03T23:33:23Z")

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Many of the YT sites I watch are reviews or descriptions of products that I might want to buy, have bought, or just haven’t heard of yet. Not all reviews are useful, but many are. And if I haven’t heard of a new item, having a link available immediately at least allows me to investigate it further.

These sites provide a useful service to me. I always reward them with a “like”, but if I end up buying the product, I think they deserve more credit, and an affiliate link is quite reasonable; I have benefitted, and so have they.

So if some nefarious program hijacks that link without notifying either party, I don’t think that is fair. It’s crooked business. And that is what Honey appears to be doing.

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