A new update to Google's Chrome Web Store policy should help protect shoppers from dubious affiliate marketing extensions.

Late last year the popular Chrome extension Honey (owned by PayPal) was revealed for employing a few shady tactics, and the extension has since lost around 4 million users on Google’s browser alone.

As a result of the Honey expose, Google has now changed its Chrome extension policies concerning affiliate ads and marketing.

Honey is accused of failing to provide real savings and sniping revenue from creators. Google has updated its rules on Chrome extensions to address affiliate program abuse. Despite thcontroversy ...

Google has updated its affiliate ads policy for Chrome extensions after creators accused PayPal’s popular Honey browser extension of being a “scam.” Honey was accused of taking affiliate ...

In an apparent reaction to the infamous Honey scandal that rocked the internet at the start of the year, Google has altered the rules around Chrome extensions to block the tactics the Honey ...

Google does not want a repeat of the Honey Chrome extension scandal. To prevent that from happening again, the company is tightening its Chrome extension affiliate ad policies and making some changes.

Users are reacting negatively to questionable practices discovered last year regarding Honey, the discount code service.

Instead of only taking credit when it saved users money, Honey attempted to use its own affiliate ID for all sales. Google is now updating Chrome extension affiliate ad policies to explicitly ...

In the wake of the controversy surrounding PayPal's Honey browser extension, Google Chrome has updated its policies to ban the practices that the extension was observed to be engaging in.

Late last year, a YouTube video uncovering the shady affiliate tactics of PayPal's coupon Chrome extension, Honey, went viral. The 23-minute video by YouTube creator MegaLag received more than 17 ...