After the Honey scandal, Google tightened its rules to stop shady affiliate link practices in Chrome extensions. Instead of just finding deals, Honey was secretly swapping affiliate links, cutting creators and influencers out of their earnings.

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

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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. Chrome's updated extension policies for affiliate ads includes wording that seems to be a direct response to many of the tactics Honey was accused of participating in,

Google has updated its policies for the Chrome Web Store with new rules for affiliate ads and programs, which require all affiliate programs to “be described prominently in the

Google has updated its Chrome extension rules to prevent extensions from adding affiliate links without the user knowing, the alleged tactic used by Honey to take sales from other sources.