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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by Baeocystin »

Another long-term PushBullet customer here.

Anyone at Google who is listening- this kind of behavior kills my desire to continue using your products dead. I need functionality, of the type PushBullet has provided for years, to do my work. The recent nerfing of ublock origin has already had me feeling iffy on things. Behavior like this is simply unacceptable. If you want people to use your services, you need to have some way to communicate. Period. "If you use our tools, we can kill your livelihood at any time for any reason and tough shit if you want a why" doesn't exactly inspire, you know?

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by jaredandrews »

Slightly related, Google is also tightening up Android 11 location permissions (with good reason). In this blog post[0] they outline a process for getting approval that was supposed to be underway by the start of May.

So far I have not been able to locate this form nor have I been able to find any Android developers who have.

If anyone here knows where it is or what the deal is, please let me know.

[0] https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2020/02/safer-loca...

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by factsaresacred »

Have been through a similar experience.

Developing extensions for Google Chrome is a particular form of masochism. They really don't seem to care. And things took a turn for the worst last December when the approval process went from hours to weeks.

Check out the Chrome Google group for a sample of the lost souls who hitched their wagon to the Chrome platform and now cry futilely into the abyss for support: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/chrom...

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

Baeocystin wrote: post #11

Another long-term PushBullet customer here. Anyone at Google who is listening- this kind of behavior kills my desire to continue using your products dead. I need functionality, of the type PushBullet has provided for years, to do my work. The recent nerfing of ublock origin has already had me feeling iffy on things. Behavior like this is simply unacceptable. If you want people to use your services, you need to have s…

Switch to Firefox. It has gotten much better.

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by boomboomsubban »

Does chrome already offer features like PushBullet? Firefox somewhat does with Pocket, so I assume chrome has something similar.

If they do offer something of the sort, or start to shortly, this seems like a perfect antitrust case.

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by patwalls »

Chrome extension developer here.

Google ripped my Chrome extension off the app store about a month ago.

I got a similar cryptic message, and then I scrambled to fix it, like you're doing now. Somehow my extension reappeared the next day.

Email me pat [at] trypigeon [dot] co and I can send you some of the things I did that maybe have helped.

Tweeting my support as well: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/1260638967793242113

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by beastman82 »

boomboomsubban wrote: post #17

Does chrome already offer features like PushBullet? Firefox somewhat does with Pocket, so I assume chrome has something similar. If they do offer something of the sort, or start to shortly, this seems like a perfect antitrust case.

Zero chance this will happen without a much bigger party involved

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by yorwba »

ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #15
Baeocystin wrote: post #11

Another long-term PushBullet customer here. Anyone at Google who is listening- this kind of behavior kills my desire to continue using your products dead. I need functionality, of the type PushBullet has provided for years, to do my work. The recent nerfing of ublock origin has already had me feeling iffy on things. Behavior like this is simply unacceptable. If you want people to use your services, you need to have s…

Switch to Firefox. It has gotten much better.

And there's also a Pushbullet add-on for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pushbullet/

Not sure whether the functionality is the same.

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