PayPal’s Honey extension has shed more than 7 million users and 7,000 merchant partners since MegaLag’s viral investigation accused it of hijacking creators’ commissions. Now a creator class-action ...

PayPal’s Honey has been a massively popular Chrome extension for years, promising to find coupon codes and save consumers money, all without costing a dime. However, a recent video exposed shady ...

At the beginning of the year, the Honey extension scandal shook the internet, revealing controversial practices in affiliate marketing. In response, Google has updated its policies for Chrome ...

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. Honey is accused of failing to provide real savings and sniping revenue from creators. Google has updated its rules on Chrome ...

Last year, the browser extension Honey got caught up in controversy over how it took affiliate revenue away from creators. Instead of only taking credit when it saved users money, Honey attempted to ...

Google does not want a repeat of the Honey Chrome extension scandal. To prevent that from happening again, the company is tightening its Chrome extension affiliate ad policies and making some changes.

Google Chrome has made a policy update today that restricts how browser extensions can interact with affiliate codes, effectively banning the behavior of the controversial PayPal Honey extension. On ...

Google has updated its policies for Chrome extensions following a controversy over the Honey extension. The extension, from PayPal, has been accused by creators of misappropriating affiliate links ...

Pranay Parab is an independent tech journalist based in Mumbai, India. He covers tech for Lifehacker, and specializes in tutorials and in-depth features. If you're out of the loop about the Honey ...

Honey is such a valuable extension to have. Quite literally! With it added to your likely impressive repertoire of extensions, you’ll find deals and coupon codes left, right, and center and save a ...