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Any privacy-friendly shopping extensions? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by mulcahey@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I love extensions that help me save money, like Honey (for crowdsourced discount codes). But Honey sends all my data to PayPal, which means that I use it sparingly and only enable it when it's time to checkout. That's inconvenient.

Are there any extensions like Honey (or Lolli) that are privacy-friendly?

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[+] jxPTkCXcakcoGNmdhtur@monyet.cc 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] bl4kers@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why not an open-source crowdfunded model like SponsorBlock? Newsletters with discount codes get sent out every day, and I'd happily contribute to a central source

[–] mulcahey@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, IMHO (which is posted here, on a FOSS platform sustained by donations), I kinda think there's a way to make this work

[–] ajayyy@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How do you think Honey gets the "discount codes"? The way these platforms become successful is becoming advertising arms for the shops themselves. They can then get exclusive codes in exchange for a cut, and tell the advertiser that they can target better customers due to their tracking.

All the incentives are bad

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Just manually search for discounts and coupons. If you are in Australia, for example, the OzBargain forum is a great resource and often superior to Honey anyway.

[–] miked@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Slickdeals forums are one US equivalent.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Yeh, OzBargain is pretty much the only aussie coupons site which isn't a scam. 50% of the time, it works every time.

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