Quite literally a fraudulent scam.

Staright up a scam, steals your data. Steals from content creator affiliate links, essentially runs a racketeering scheme on online businesses. Doesn't even provide you with the best discounts available. You are far better off looking for coupons yourself.

Search for "Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam" on YouTube and you will know. Tested it for myself and it indeed is the case. L to "Honey" and "L" to PayPal.

It's a scam!!

fraud, theft and a scam

Literal scam

Honey by Paypal is a fraud and scam. Search on youtube and give 1 star to them everywhere. Uninstall this sh*t from everyone's browsers.

Sniping referrals
Offering removal of codes to paying "partners"
Page content manipulation from clicking a dismiss button

It's a scam, and a scummy one at that

It's a scam, do not install

Honey scam is a scam see megalag's expose they will actively lie to your face.

Bait and switch scam that steals affiliate codes and sales from sites. This is illegal and criminal.

For the user: this extension seemingly uses deceptive practices to offer inferior coupon, sometimes inputting their own brand coupon less than a discount than other coupons available while getting commission for theirs. Often, Honey declares no coupons are available even if the user suggests one to the Honey's database.
To other businesses: it steals from content creators or 3rd party websites who gain commissions when using their links when advertising/recommending by secretly swapping cookies at the last second before purchase. Either is does this by opening a quick pop-up window which it then closes before the user sees, or clicking the button "got it!" to dismiss the window Honey shows when it prompts that it doesnt have coupons available.

This addon is a scam which steal money from people

Scam and steals clicks from genuine referrals

scam

Steals money from referals by replacing a genuine refferal cookie with its own, even if it fails to find you a discount. This is fraud.
It will also hide the best codes to maximise the comission it recieves as a portion of the sale. This is misleading the customer.