Rakuten

Rakuten is the best-known cash back extension, and more open than the coupon auto-appliers. You see an offer and click to accept it. In return it collects a lot about what you browse and buy, so use it only if you will actually claim the cash back.

Rakuten, formerly Ebates, is a cash back service for US shopping. The extension tells you when a store you visit pays cash back, and you click to activate it before you buy. Its Edge description says it also finds coupons, searches for lower prices and shows cash back rates in Google, Yahoo and Bing results.

Here is how it makes money. Rakuten earns affiliate commission on your purchases and shares part of it as cash back. Its privacy notice, updated 13 March 2026, says accepting an offer overwrites other affiliates' tracking cookies for that store, so a creator who sent you there can lose credit. It also says it collects the products, coupons and merchants you view, and order totals on confirmation pages. Law firms have named Rakuten among extensions accused of redirecting commissions, but those are allegations, not findings.