The industry has a trust problem
Some of the best-known “savings” browser extensions turned out to be in the arbitrage business, not the savings business. The playbook is now well documented: quietly swap in the extension's own affiliate cookie at checkout to claim credit for purchases it didn't cause, take commissions that would have gone to the creator who actually recommended the product, and show users a “best code” that wasn't the best one available. The user saw a friendly mascot. The business model was the checkout.
We think that playbook poisoned the well for every tool in this category. So we wrote down what we refuse to do — and built the product so the refusals are structural, not promises.
Four things Discount Hunter will never do
- No affiliate-cookie injection.Our Chrome extension never sets, swaps, or “refreshes” affiliate cookies in the background. It does not touch your checkout at all. It acts on exactly one event: you clicking “track this product.”
- No last-click hijacking.We never claim attribution for a purchase we didn't cause. If you found a product through a creator, the creator keeps the credit.
- No coupon games.We don't inject, suppress, or substitute discount codes. The price you see on the shop's page is the price we alerted you about — verified against the shop's own data.
- No browsing surveillance. The extension reads only the product pages you explicitly ask it to track. No history harvesting, no shopping-profile resale, no ads. Details in the privacy policy.
So how does it make money?
The boring, disclosed way. When an alert we sent you leads you to click through and buy, that link may carry an affiliate tag and the shop may pay us a small commission out of its marketing budget. Your price does not change, and commissions never influence which alerts you get — your watchlist and the real discount do. The full mechanics are on the affiliate disclosure page.
That's the entire difference. A hijacker profits from purchases it had nothing to do with, so it must watch everything you do. An alert service profits only when its alert was genuinely useful — so it doesn't need to watch you at all. We chose the second model on purpose, and the incentives do the rest.
The deal has to be real, too
“Honest” also covers the discounts themselves. We verify prices against the shop's own claimed pricing, keep a real price history for every tracked product, and track 30-day rolling lows in line with the EU Omnibus Directive — so an inflated “was” price can't dress up a fake sale. If a deal isn't real, it doesn't become an alert.
Hold us to it
Discount Hunter is built by an independent founder, not a growth team optimizing checkout interception. If you ever catch the product breaking a promise on this page, write to hello@discounthunter.app — it will be fixed, and you'll get an answer from a human.