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

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Post by swiley »

wlesieutre wrote: post #36
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…

Chrome is a trivially easy product to switch off of compared to other Google properties like Gmail and YouTube. Have you tried Firefox recently?

Firefox is actually a significantly better browser on GNU/Linux. Chrome is pretty awful.

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Post by gowld »

propogandist wrote: post #343
cpascal wrote: post #150

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One worry about tying your identity to your own domain, is the security of your identity (aka your domain) hinges on the security of your registrar. If a bad actor can socially engineer their way into controlling your domain, your entire identity is compromised. Here's a blog post about this nightmare happening to someone: https://medium.com/@N/how-i-lost-my-50-000-twitter-username-...

owning your domain and having control of a domain through a trusted registrar is better than relying on the worlds largest advertising company to manage your digital identity (email), which is offered as a free service, that's subject to a catch-all ToS.

The article is literally about a user who was attacked because Twitter, Facebook ad GoDaddy have bad security, while his Google account was safe.

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Post by Drew_ »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #303
andrewmutz wrote: post #281

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I disagree. I think this practice could be seen as anti-developer, but it is pro-consumer.

The bit that improves user’s privacy is pro-consumer. The bit that removes user’s access to products is anti-consumer.

You can freely sideload any Chrome extension it doesn't have to be on the Chrome Web Store

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Post by yellowapple »

laumars wrote: post #82
ilrwbwrkhv wrote: post #15

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Switch to Firefox. It has gotten much better.

I’m absolutely loving Firefox at the moment. I have temporary containers extension plus an extension to manage google and Facebook containers and the whole thing has become such a pleasurable experience. Combined with pihole it feels like I’m reclaiming the web back again. Such a blissful experience.

Yep, for me Multi-Account Containers and Tree Style Tabs are both killer features. Being able to load the same page with multiple accounts within the same browser and without losing everything after each session is a game changer for all sorts of situations, as is being able to keep dozens or even hundreds of tabs open without squeezing and squishing them unreadably into the top of the window like some kind of maniac.

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Post by ThePowerOfFuet »

gumby wrote: post #262
tracker1 wrote: post #230

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I know some will reject the idea.. but if Google is your domain registrar, they'll do email forwarding without an extra charge. I've started using @mydomain where the is the website/service I've registered for... doesn't help with my existing stack though.

You can just do forwarding. I’ve run my own mail service since the 80s, and when I need a google login to work with someone I just create it and forward my mail. When the project is over, just delete it. Easy-peasy. Unless a client wants to use google docs I‘ve never found an account to add any value anyway. I don’t use google search much any more but when I do it works fine without cookies. And I try chrome occasion…

Google Docs works fine in Firefox and Safari.

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Post by ori_b »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #105
jtxx wrote: post #64

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ProtonMail has come a long way as a replacement for Gmail as well. Suuuper happy with them, they're really responsive to feature requests and support inquiries. I requested for an iOS feature to choose browsers so I could open all links from PM in Firefox. They had it implemented in a month or something... it a quick fix but that impressed me. hence me shilling here They recently added ProtonCalendar too.

Switching email isn't nearly as friction-free as switching your browser. Not only do you have to change your email in every service you've registered for, you also need to convince your friends and other contacts to use the new email.

You can set up forwarding rules and switch gradually. It's pretty much painless.

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Post by dan-robertson »

prox wrote: post #358
danpalmer wrote: post #292

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As mentioned, I think Google have handled it poorly, but their fundamental position – that this extension is incorrectly using permissions – was significantly correct and may prove to be fully correct. Google deserve criticism for the lack of clarity in the communication, they deserve criticism for the lack of human touch, customer support and many other aspects. They do not deserve criticism for calling out incorrec…

Do it properly or don’t do it all is my motto. They could have been more forthcoming from the start. This is mystery meat communication. > the concealment of relevant information over basic practicality and functionality.

I agree mostly. But why shouldn’t the OP extension also be required to “do it properly”? Where should one draw the line?

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Post by karlicoss »

andrewmutz wrote: post #281
onefuncman wrote: post #248

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They aren't solving this problem, they're killing off extensions. And I say this having received many unsolicited attempts to "purchase" Chrome extensions.

I disagree. I think this practice could be seen as anti-developer, but it is pro-consumer.

I often wish for a separate browser for consumers that are also devs. I'd happily lift the permissions for some open source extensions I'm using if that means better functionality.
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