Your beginner’s guide to Honey, the anti-Amazon shopping extension
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Your beginner's guide to Honey, the anti-Amazon shopping extension
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Honey is a browser extension that purportedly helps you find the best price for your items by automatically price-matching items and automatically applying coupon codes. It's garnered quite a following, and was purchased in November by PayPal. It's pretty nifty - my colleague Yessi listed it as her favorite thing on the internet last year.
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One of the truths of the internet is that Amazon's prices operate on an inscrutable formula - they fluctuate and go on sale at somewhat arbitrary intervals. One of the benefits of Honey is that it offers a price history of items on Amazon, so you know if they're likely to go on sale at some point.
[Read: Why you shouldn't always trust the 'Amazon's Choice' badge]
It's probably not a surprise that Amazon's trying to warn its users off of Honey. The site has begun displaying a warning suggesting Honey is malicious, and is also simultaneously advertising its own price tracker.
After telling some of its