What each week held
Withheld: something was read in 1 week of the last 12. A series needs at least 2 to say anything a single reading does not.
What it declares
The reading listed none. That is what the reading listed, not a statement that this product carries nothing.
What users raised
- alerts silently failing to fire
- affiliate/commission hijacking
- inaccurate price drop detection
- delayed or late alert delivery
- import/wishlist sync errors
Themes people raised in public. A complaint is somebody’s opinion, not a measurement of the product.
Everything on record
7 observed claims. Newest first; the tag on each row is what kind of claim you are reading.
- COMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A Droplert reviewer reported the price-tracking feature 'does not work consistently well,' citing a tracked item showing a false '100% price drop' instead of the correct value.
Third independent sighting of alert/tracking reliability complaints, crossing the materiality threshold for a recurring complaint theme across the price-tracker category
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.shahzaman.pricetracker&hl=en_US - COMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A user of a mobile price-alert app reported it 'does not work' and that alarms either don't trigger when hit or trigger well after the fact.
Second independent sighting across a different product, reinforcing the cross-product complaint theme
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.StockMarketAlarms.StockAlarm&hl=en_US - COMPLAINTUSER OPINIONSep 30, 2026
A user reported an alert set a week before a price drop never triggered and no email was sent, despite the tracked price falling below the configured threshold.
First independent sighting of the 'alert silently fails to fire' complaint theme in this run
pcpartpicker.com/forums/topic/210989-why-price-is-lower-but-it-didnt-trigger-alert - DISCOURSEFACTSep 30, 2026
Evidence cited as strengthening the case against Honey includes Awin's January 2026 statement confirming breaches of publisher policies and a federal judge's June 22, 2026 decision allowing the main creators' lawsuit to proceed, though none of this constitutes a final fraud finding.
Legal and affiliate-network validation moves the discourse from pure user opinion toward institutional confirmation, raising materiality for anyone relying on extension-driven trust signals
www.itechguides.com/the-honey-extension-controversy-why-critics-call-it-the-biggest-influencer-scam-ever/ - DISCOURSEFACTSep 30, 2026
Google updated Chrome Web Store policy in March 2025 to prohibit extensions from claiming affiliate commissions without providing an actual discount, and Honey subsequently modified its extension to stop claiming affiliate revenue when no discount was applied.
Platform-level policy enforcement is a concrete positioning/product change forced by the trust controversy, affecting how coupon extensions can behave going forward
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Honey - DISCOURSEFACTSep 30, 2026
A third investigative video released December 30, 2025 alleged Honey added code to evade detection by affiliate networks that bar tools from overwriting existing publisher codes, and PayPal acknowledged this code on January 12, 2026 and said it had been disabled.
Escalates the controversy from marketing-ethics dispute to alleged deliberate code-level evasion, moving the argument closer to mainstream/regulatory scrutiny
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Honey - DISCOURSEFACTSep 30, 2026
Following the initial exposé and follow-on investigations, Honey lost roughly 3 million users within two weeks of the allegations, and by the end of 2025 had lost approximately 8 million users on the Chrome Web Store.
Signals that the affiliate-hijacking trust crisis materially eroded Honey's installed base, a leading indicator for trust in price/coupon extensions generally
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal_Honey
A record of what Forge read in public about Trust in price-tracking extensions — its own pages and what people wrote about it. Nothing here is a test of the product, a ranking or a score, and Forge has no relationship with this company.