Following an exposé late last year, PayPal’s popular Honey extension has slowly been dropping users. Now, Honey is down yet another million Chrome users.
Prior to a video from MegaLag last year that exposed a handful of shady tactics from PayPal Honey, the extension was a smashing success with upwards of 20 million users on Google Chrome at one point. But, in the time since, it’s continued to steadily lose it userbase on Google’s browser.
Honey, as of July 2025, is down to 14,000,000 users according to the Chrome Web Store.
That’s down around 6-7 million from its peak in 2024, and down from 15 million just six weeks ago, which in itself was down a million from just under two months prior. If anything, Honey seems to be more quickly dropping users, despite the extension having been forced to make changes by Google in recent months.
Honey still claims that it is “Trusted by 17+ million members,” a figure that’s technically still possible as Chrome’s numbers don’t include installations on other browsers such as Firefox and Microsoft Edge. We previously dove into those numbers and, while the figure may still be true, it’s clear that any buffer is shrinking quickly.
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