Honey Browser Extension is a Big Security Risk
Honey is a browser extension which is helpful for the users to scan coupon codes on lots of shopping websites. You just need to shop anything normally but when you are going to make payment for your product, it will provide you with a coupon. By adding this coupon, you will get a discount on your product. The most essential thing about this browser is that it is easy for you to apply coupons of this extension just with the help of a single click. It is also a facility of Honey Gold for the users and with the help of Honey Gold; it is also easy for the users to earn money. It is also known as the best extension to you to match prices of different products on the Amazon. As told by experts of assignment help firm, in November 2019, this browser was acquired by PayPal. Nowadays, Amazon is saying that Honey browser is creating lots of security risks for the users.
Amazon has warned its users that when they are going to buy products from their website, they should try to use these browsers with caution. As we have discussed earlier that Honey browser is known as the best browser for the users to get coupons for the online deals. Nowadays, it has been flagged by giant retailers. These retailers have a complaint that this essential browser is tracking the browsing history of the users and it is becoming one of the biggest security risks for the users. As the extension of this tool is freely available on different web browsers, that’s why millions of people in all around are world are using this browser. According to Amazon, Honey browser is becoming a security risk for the users in the following ways;
- It is tracking your private behaviour while buying any kind of product.
- It is collecting private data about your shopping deals.
- This browser can also change the data on your visited website when you are going to buy any product.
Due to these kinds of security risks, Politico editor Ryan Hutchins is giving suggestion to the users that they should immediately uninstall this extension from their browsers.
As we know that December is known as the peak shopping month on Amazon and Amazon has detected this suspicious behaviour of this extension during this month. That’s why Amazon has started to show a warning on December 20th 2019. As we know that Honey browser was known as one of the compatible extensions with the Amazon deals over the years. Therefore, after this sudden change of Amazon’s tone regarding this essential browser, lots of questions come to the minds of the commentators.
Among these commentators, some commentators are thinking that this offensive tone is due to the deal of Honey browser with PayPal. According to this deal, in November 2019, PayPal and Honey browser were linked with each other in a deal of $4 billion. That’s why it is known as the best competitor of Amazon. Due to this reason, there is a possibility that Amazon is not accepting it as its competitor. That’s why it is asking to their customers that they should immediately uninstall this extension from their browsers. Anyhow, this conversation of the commentators is totally opposite to the conversation of the Amazon.
According to The Verge, they have discussed this problem with one of the best spokesperson of Amazon. After discussing the whole situation, they come to know that according to the spokesperson of Amazon, Amazon is telling the true situation to their customers and all the other commentators are providing them with some undue claims. He has also told that it is their responsibility to warn their customers and now, it is up to the customers either they want to hide their privacy or not. In the case of any problem, the Amazon team will not be responsible because the Amazon team is warning the customers in advance.
According to Wired, they have discussed the same problem with one of the spokespeople of Honey. According to him, Honey extension is collecting data and information for their members only to provide help to the customers. By collecting this information, their aim is to save time and money of the customers. Moreover, he has also explained that they never try to get access to the private information of the users. It means that they have set a line in order to make sure about the privacy of the users and they never try to cross this line. It means that their users don’t have any kind of privacy threat from them.
