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Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal
(www.theverge.com)
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I installed it and tried it on occasion, but it never worked for finding any coupons. It was the only extension I had that I kept disabled because I always thought it's interaction with the browser and web pages was sus as fuck.
TBH, it was more of a curiosity I kept around to explore one day. I also dissect and detonate malware a few times a week, so I just treated Honey as such.
(That folder named "malware" on my computer is actually real. I pitty the poor soul who steals it thinking its just a joke to store my private data.)
Unrelated: I finally got my first .SVG downloader today, actually. Whoever the fuck thought it would be a good idea to add a script tag to SVG needs to be put down.
SVG was in part intended as a replacement for Flash, which had animations and interactive graphic elements. The script tag has been there since 2001's SVG 1.0 🤷