another StallmanWasRight moment?
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Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
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#42My extension, which was just a script block and some CSS tweaks was banned as it was a paywall bypass for a popular news site in Australia.
Fair enough according to their policy but I couldn’t help feeling disappointed when I got the email as the extension was quite popular at the time.
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#43another StallmanWasRight moment?
Yes. And because of that I cannot empathise with this developer.
It's not longer a case of "don't put your time into a closed ecosystem, for your own sake", but "you have the moral duty not to contribute to a closed ecosystem, for everyone's sake".
The developer was doing something imoral and something bad happened to him. It's karma, Kramer.
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#44They somehow have the man power to ban your extension in 2 hours and 30 minutes without an explanation as to why, but than when I get a fake copyright claim on my most popular YouTube video somehow it takes three months, 12 emails and I still don't get the ~$900 lost revenue back.
They optimize for their own profit, not yours. ;)
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#46It's funny because my app just got removed from the Play Store for similar (weird) reasons https://twitter.com/edhelas/status/1014265845940441088.
Basically I'm also providing a link to F-Droid on the home screen. The app is blocked and I can only resubmit a new one…
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#47Meanwhile there’s an extension on there with our company name and logo (both trademarked) that might be stealing peoples data and Google have done nothing about it after many submissions of their trademark infringement form.
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#48Same 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…
Did you ever find out why this all happened?
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#49another StallmanWasRight moment?
Yes. And because of that I cannot empathise with this developer. It's not longer a case of "don't put your time into a closed ecosystem, for your own sake", but "you have the moral duty not to contribute to a closed ecosystem, for everyone's sake". The developer was doing something imoral and something bad happened to him. It's karma, Kramer.
Well said. Though I don't expect that to fly with the corporate authoritarians around here.
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#50Its their sandbox.