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Honey extension follow-up: do you trust your browser add-ons?

Megalag's Honey follow-ups are worth a weekend watch. Browser extensions still have too much access to your online life.

Megalag's Honey follow-ups (part 2 and after) keep digging into how ugly the affiliate / coupon-extension model looks under the hood. Worth a weekend watch if you still have shopping add-ons installed.

My take has not changed since I wrote I'm not a fan of browser extensions: most of them ask for more access than the feature needs, and "helpful" shopping tools sit in a trust class most people never audit.

  • Do you really need that extension?
  • Would you hand the same tabs to a random contractor?

If the answer is fuzzy, remove it. Separate browser profiles help when you must keep one - contain the blast radius instead of letting one add-on see everything.

What do you still trust enough to leave installed?

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Olivier Reuland