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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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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.

Yup, exactly the same. That's what I use. The only thing Chrome was better in the past was audio pitch correction in sped up videos. Firefox recently fixed that so now for me there is absolutely no need to use Chrome anymore.

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

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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://g…

This one looks particularly relevant: https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chrom...

It seems like all extension developers play the same game of guess-and-check to find out which permissions they should remove, and the unlucky ones get banned for trying too often.

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

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Yikes! I've used PushBullet for since several years and I can't imagine not using it.

I can understand why Google is doing this though. They have a "Send to device" feature in Chrome. Killing the top 3rd party app is the perfect way to grow adoption of their new & in-built feature.

"Do no evil"

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

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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.

While Firefox is better than Chrome...

Mozilla is becoming more and more Google Like as time progresses, where a few years ago I would have believed it would be unthinkable for Mozilla do so something like this to an extension, today I am not so sure I would trust them either

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

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Any reason that Google doesn't give reasons and ways to comply?

I haven't ever had to deal with a Google person regarding Android development, but when I built stuff for Blackberry (miss that company), they always provided nice and detailed feedback. Blackberry famously let legal influence design, so I would be surprised if it was a cover your ass thing.

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

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Any reason that Google doesn't give reasons and ways to comply? I haven't ever had to deal with a Google person regarding Android development, but when I built stuff for Blackberry (miss that company), they always provided nice and detailed feedback. Blackberry famously let legal influence design, so I would be surprised if it was a cover your ass thing.

Because they are attempting to automate all of it. This message is generic and based on some analysis of the "manifest.json".

They have also turned off all reviews in the Chrome Web Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935092

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

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This is a good extension but here is a cool hack I've discovered that let's you do this anywhere without any chrome extensions:

- Create a new whatsgroupp called 'ping self' and add your friend to it.

- Then kick your friend out from this group

- Open web.whatsapp.com and now you can access your messages, files, photos across any device anywhere, anytime! (telegram also does this and allows file up to 1gb)

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

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This is sad but they're just responding to market hysteria on permissions.

The general idea of "please limit the permissions you request", maybe. The secrecy about what they don't like isn't part of that, that's just Google's preference for keeping things vague.

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

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Switch to Firefox. It has gotten much better.

While Firefox is better than Chrome... Mozilla is becoming more and more Google Like as time progresses, where a few years ago I would have believed it would be unthinkable for Mozilla do so something like this to an extension, today I am not so sure I would trust them either

Mozilla doesn't have the conflict of interest google does with ads...

That alone makes me use Firefox over Chrome.

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