MegaLag's December 2024 investigation, confirmed by Rakuten's January 2026 removal of Honey from their affiliate network, established that Honey was rewriting last-click affiliate cookies on checkout — taking credit (and commission) from creators who actually referred the sale. The category lost 8M+ Chrome users by mid-2025. Here's the honest replacement list.
Owned by Capital One, runs the auto-apply-codes feature Honey was built on, but does not rewrite cookies. Free, browser-only, doesn't require a Capital One account. The closest functional Honey replacement.
Different category — these tell you if today's "deal" is below the 90-day low. Use as the verification layer ON TOP of any coupon-testing extension. Free tier on Keepa covers basics; paid tier ($19/mo) unlocks Amazon-only price-history alerts at the SKU level.
Different angle — gives you a % back on purchases at partner retailers. Real, audited, but conflicts with affiliate-cookie extensions (don't run with another deal extension simultaneously or one will eat the other's tracking). Use Rakuten OR Capital One Shopping, not both.
Our own Chrome extension surfaces verified coupon codes for the merchant whose checkout page you're on. One-click copy, never injects into the merchant's checkout, never rewrites cookies. Free, no account required. Built explicitly post-Honey-scandal to be the version of Honey people THOUGHT they were getting.
Honey itself (the original sin). Wikibuy (Capital One Shopping's predecessor — now defunct). Cently (sold to data brokers, owned by Lifehacker now). RetailMeNot extension (stale-code-pile problem). Any "deal" extension that asks for unrestricted host-permissions across all sites — that's the technical permission the cookie-hijacking required.
The tactics above only matter if you actually use them on a live deal. We curate those next.
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