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I've wondered if something like this was coming for honey/joinhoney extension.. Sure pulling info from PortalX that us public is on thing - but what if Amazaon
by stevenicr 6y ago
I've wondered if something like this was coming for honey/joinhoney extension..
Sure pulling info from PortalX that us public is on thing - but what if Amazaon starts adding coupon codes for logged in users only? or even if not logged in, but recognized user - adds special promo price for doing thing Y.. at that point they are scraping non-public data.
They would also be using that data for other purposes than just the single user who is accessing it - most likely..
I find the lack of privacy discussing in the joinhoney ads I've heard to be a bit distressing personally.
Just looked at their privacy policy, and I wonder if "Honey does not track your search engine history, emails, or your browsing on any site that is not a retail website (a site where you can shop and make a purchase)"
Is purposefully trying put into user's mines, retail, you know like home depot, bed bath, etc.. but the way it's written can include online retail portals.. but with "(a site where you can shop and make a purchase)"" added as a qualifier - wouldn't this include pornhub and similar places?
Fingers crossed the browser makers will include on-off toggles for extensions soon - similar to how uBlock origin has - would be great to have a whitelist list of sites that I could have my browser remind me that I can turn on SpyShoppingExtensionToCheck - then auto turn off when leaving set list..
I avoided so many chrome extensions that said 'perms to view / change all web pages/ - even though I may have really wanted to use them on blankTube and yaddaTube - I didn't want them reading all web pages, and the current UI for turning off and on is not optimal imho.