# PayPal Honey: Automated Coupons & Rewards

> Save money and earn rewards when you shop online.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/honey](https://chrome-stats.com/d/honey)

## Overview

- **ID:** `honey`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Honey
- **Category:** search-tools,shopping
- **Daily users:** 291,403
- **Weekly downloads:** 520
- **Rating:** 2.86 / 5 (8,178 ratings)
- **Version:** 12.8.4
- **Last updated:** 2021-06-23
- **First published:** 2013-01-05
- **Size:** 3.07 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/honey/)
- **Website:** [http://www.joinhoney.com](http://www.joinhoney.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/honey/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/honey/privacy/)

## Description

Honey is a powerful Chrome extension designed to simplify and maximize your online shopping savings. With just one click, Honey automatically finds and applies the best coupon codes to your shopping cart at more than 10,000 popular stores across the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and India.

Besides effortless coupon application, Honey offers valuable features like price history charts and alerts on Amazon, helping shoppers identify the best times to buy their favorite products. With broad store support and easy-to-use functionality, Honey ensures you never miss out on savings during online checkout. Stay informed about deals and enjoy an enhanced shopping experience with this essential tool for savvy shoppers.

## Rankings

- #59 — Overall
- #6 — Shopping
- #18 — Search Tools
- #1 — paypal
- #2 — honey
- #2 — rewards

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has bad user ratings

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## Review summary

Across the reviews, PayPal Honey is described as fraudulent and deceptive, with several users claiming it steals coupons, rewrites referral codes, and cheats linked sites. Many reviewers accuse the extension of prioritizing its own revenue over users and partners, noting that they are the product and that data is secretly collected and sold. Others warn that businesses, influencers, storefronts, and creators lose money and that the company engages in unethical practices. Overall, trust and value appear severely compromised.

### Cons

- Fraud/deception allegations: described by reviewers as a scam that steals coupons and replaces referral codes to divert earnings.
- Privacy and data concerns: claims the company secretly collects and sells user data.
- Harm to partners and users: money lost for businesses, influencers, storefronts, and creators; users are treated as the product.
- Unethical business practices and greed: general critique of the company's conduct.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/honey)