#DeleteGoogle
Probably far more difficult than #DeleteFacebook
Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
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Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#32Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#33In another thread[1] on HN today there was discussion over developers selling out their web extensions to marketing corporations which end up filling them with tracking scripts and malware. Someone suggested that google should be much more aggressive at filtering out said extensions, and one of the responses was a sarcastic comment over a future article about Google attacking extension developers and the free web. An…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448254
I can already see the followup HN news: "Google attacking developers on Chrome Web Store and breaking free web!"
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#34I'm very curious to see how this plays out. Obviously, the reason for banning the extension is that it prevents Google from tracking our clicks (I'm surprised it took them so long!) But they can't clearly spell out the reason as it would make them look bad, so they just used some template and try to sweep it under the carpet. Now that it's on HN it's no longer so easy to ignore, so I'm really curious to see what happens next.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#35Same thing happened to me [1], with a slightly different rationale for pulling the extension. This happened despite tens of thousands of users, years of good reviews, and an extension so useful that Google's own accessibility team demos it at conferences. I was only able to get the situation sorted because I know people who work at Google on the Chrome team. Even with all this, it took weeks to get the previous versi…
Another good option is posting your story on HN: if it gets to the front page, you have good chances of solving your problem.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#36Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#37Isn't that extension going straight against Google's ability to track what users are clicking on, i.e. against their core business? Maybe the warning wording is cumbersome or opaque, but what would the author expect? Company not protecting their turf? The only surprising thing is that they did it in this unimaginative hidden fashion, not fitting their friendly progressive image.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you saying that Firefox mobile has uninstalled add-ons from your browser multiple times? I've been running Nightly mobile for more than a year and never had that happen. It sounds like a very strange bug, maybe it had something to do with Sync?
> Are you saying that Firefox mobile has uninstalled add-ons from your browser multiple times? Yes. Checked while posting this, and they're uninstalled again.
Try wiping Firefox's app data. Sounds like a corrupt profile to me.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#39In another thread[1] on HN today there was discussion over developers selling out their web extensions to marketing corporations which end up filling them with tracking scripts and malware. Someone suggested that google should be much more aggressive at filtering out said extensions, and one of the responses was a sarcastic comment over a future article about Google attacking extension developers and the free web. An…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17448254 I can already see the followup HN news: "Google attacking developers on Chrome Web Store and breaking free web!" That's uncanny!
It's almost as if the poster of this item had also noticed this page from yesterday around the same time:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17449927
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