I'd guess that the warning period was set to 168 minutes (2hrs 48 minutes) instead of 168 hours (7 days).
Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
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#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem isn't that an extension was removed. There will always be erroneous attempts at making things safer for users when playing the game of content moderator. The problem is that Google is impossible to talk to, and makes no effort to help when things go wrong. As a current user of gmail this worries me.
This petrifies me. Google provides an incredibly easy way for me to capture all data that I care about. Getting photos and videos of my kids growing up and keeping them for years is trivial with Google. And in one little error it can all disappear with no recourse. I continue to struggle today to find a silver bullet solution for someone like me who just wants to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money to guara…
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#103In 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…
Google is also removing inline install in September, together with some other chrome web store clean-ups.
All in all, this is nothing new and it seems to be a lot of huff about a simple mistake.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
This petrifies me. Google provides an incredibly easy way for me to capture all data that I care about. Getting photos and videos of my kids growing up and keeping them for years is trivial with Google. And in one little error it can all disappear with no recourse. I continue to struggle today to find a silver bullet solution for someone like me who just wants to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money to guara…
I always get some photos printed. Granted, you can't print the hundreds we take these days, but do you really need ALL?
If you don't keep them all, then you have to choose. Choosing takes time and effort that many people would prefer to spend in other ways.
Very few people think that every single shot will be meaningful in 30 years. But it's hard to know what will be and won't be.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#105I'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 happ…
There's a much more obvious reason: the OP's extension presumably requested permissions to inject scripts to google.com. This is a very common pattern for malicious extensions, which can use that permission to hijack the user's Google session, or to inject third-party ads into Google search result pages. Coupled with the lack of information on the extension page, it looked risky.
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem isn't that an extension was removed. There will always be erroneous attempts at making things safer for users when playing the game of content moderator. The problem is that Google is impossible to talk to, and makes no effort to help when things go wrong. As a current user of gmail this worries me.
This petrifies me. Google provides an incredibly easy way for me to capture all data that I care about. Getting photos and videos of my kids growing up and keeping them for years is trivial with Google. And in one little error it can all disappear with no recourse. I continue to struggle today to find a silver bullet solution for someone like me who just wants to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money to guara…
In real empirical practice, which happens more often: google locks a user out of their own data (a user who wasn't intentionally blatantly violating the
TOS), or a non-google-user loses their data to due some technical error or natural disaster?
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#107Earlier quoted context omitted.
This petrifies me. Google provides an incredibly easy way for me to capture all data that I care about. Getting photos and videos of my kids growing up and keeping them for years is trivial with Google. And in one little error it can all disappear with no recourse. I continue to struggle today to find a silver bullet solution for someone like me who just wants to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money to guara…
That's what I do with Google Drive? If I were to get banned from Google, I'd still have my folder as a backup which I can then upload to Dropbox or whatever alternative. If I were to lose my folder (My hard drive went bust!) my folder is one resync away. What is the problem you have with photos, and videos in that sense? Or are you talking about the Free "Google Photo" thing for lower resolution images?
Google Drive doesn't back up email and calendar your private machine.
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Go to Digital Ocean, make a NextCloud droplet, and configure backups to Backblaze. There you go. Bonus point if you buy a small server and become a custodian of your own data.
Bonus points when Digital Ocean nukes your account with no recourse, because that's happened to people in the past. So, follow the backup instructions very very very carefully people!
Less likely that Google and DO will both lock your account at the same time.
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#109My google apps account is being shut down the same way. Apparently using it everyday doesn’t constitute activity for 365 days...
Re: Google to developers: We take down your extension because we can
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem isn't that an extension was removed. There will always be erroneous attempts at making things safer for users when playing the game of content moderator. The problem is that Google is impossible to talk to, and makes no effort to help when things go wrong. As a current user of gmail this worries me.
This petrifies me. Google provides an incredibly easy way for me to capture all data that I care about. Getting photos and videos of my kids growing up and keeping them for years is trivial with Google. And in one little error it can all disappear with no recourse. I continue to struggle today to find a silver bullet solution for someone like me who just wants to hurl money somewhere and say, "use this money to guara…
Getting locked out of gmail is no joke. I have an old account that’s been forwarding to me for years, but when I recently changed my phone I lost my two factor.
Despite being able to supply google with the creation date (they ask), the fact that my name/birthday is the same on both accounts, I’ve attached the same visa to both google accounts, I’ve logged on to them from the same ips, and the fact that it’s forwarding everything to me, I still haven’t been able to get it unlocked.
I’m not sure I’ve really spoken to anything but an automated process either.
It’s entirely my fault for losing the two-factor restoration keys, but it’s been a little frightening to realize that you can’t just contact google and have them help you.