> wasn’t this completely unknown at the time I would have thought was obvious from the beginning that Honey was making some of its money from affiliate program

> wasn’t this completely unknown at the time I would have thought was obvious from the beginning that Honey was making some of its money from affiliate programs; affiliate programs are the standard thing that "shopping" extensions use to make money, leaving aside the much shadier things that even more malicious extensions do (see the various articles on the offers extension authors receive). I'd always assumed the people promoting it made more money from the sponsorship than they lost from lost affiliate links. The recent discussions suggest that's not the case.