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Are price tracking browser extensions actually selling all my browsing history and personal data behind the scenes? Ive used Honey and Capital One Shopping for years to hunt down deals on PC parts here in Austin, but I just checked my network traffic with Wireshark and saw some super sketchy outbound payloads going to third party ad trackers right after checkout. Like, I get they make money on affiliate links, but are they straight up harvesting cookies and personal info too? If anyone here has actually reverse engineered these extensions or looked at their privacy compliance lately, please let me know before I uninstall every single one of them today...
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05/11/2026 7:55 am
In my experience reverse engineering extensions with Burp Suite, yes, many of them log way more than just shopping URLs. Over the years Ive watched traffic payloads ship off session tokens and cookie data directly to ad networks.
- Honey and similar tools inject scripts across unrelated domains
- Affiliate attribution scripts often grab DOM elements containing personal info
- Sandbox them in a dedicated browser profile if you gotta use them Honestly id just dump them and check manual coupon aggregators instead.