Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal

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• adespoton@lemmy.ca ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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.

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  • ashley@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Because nobody has the mental bandwidth to think in depth about every decision they make

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I installed it and tried it on occasion, but it never worked for finding any coupons. It was the only extension I had that I kept disabled because I always thought it’s interaction with the browser and web pages was sus as fuck.

    TBH, it was more of a curiosity I kept around to explore one day. I also dissect and detonate malware a few times a week, so I just treated Honey as such.

    (That folder named “malware” on my computer is actually real. I pitty the poor soul who steals it thinking its just a joke to store my private data.)

    Unrelated: I finally got my first .SVG downloader today, actually. Whoever the fuck thought it would be a good idea to add a script tag to SVG needs to be put down.

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