You Can't "Skill Issue" Your Way Out Of Bad UX

Someone reverse-engineered the Honey browser extension (you know, the "coupon finder" that supposedly saves you money) and found some... interesting code. The highlighted sections show tracking events being sent with coupon data, and then there's a function literally called maybeShowUserShare() . Not "definitely protect user privacy" or "ask for consent" - just maybe show the user you're sharing their data. The function name is doing some heavy lifting here. It's like naming a function maybeStealYourWallet() and acting surprised when people get upset. The code is sending analytics events with coupon codes and tracking whether coupons were applied - all that juicy e-commerce data that's worth its weight in affiliate commission gold. Nothing says "trustworthy" quite like discovering the free money-saving tool you installed is potentially monetizing your shopping habits without being super transparent about it. But hey, at least the developer was honest enough to use "maybe" in the function name. That's more transparency than most privacy policies give you.

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