Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
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Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#2I’m sorry that you had that experience. Maybe enough up votes will get Google’s attention.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#3> Google (Robot): We'll take your extension down
Me: Hey, this must be a mistake
> Google (Robot): No mistake, review these policies, your extension violates one of them
Me: It does not violate any of them, this is a mistake!
> Google (Finally human): Oh, sorry, a mistake.
Obviously someone just needs to create a robot that automatically replies to the takedown notices and disputes them, thus closing the loop!
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#4I’m sorry that you had that experience. Maybe enough up votes will get Google’s attention.
There’s only one developer advocate on the Chrome extension team; hopefully they see this!
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#5It is disgusting that no one from media asks Sundar Pichai touch questions like:
1. Non human (AI) usage for termination google accounts. 2. No repeal process
At least some employee from Google here in hn must do things and understand mentality of other people.
It increasingly looks like - well... we employees live in bubble but if you are unlucky then you are screwed. Do not ask us?
What kind of programmers wrote such code that terminates account without human intervention? Please do not blame it on Project Managers.
You are human - so is some one that was affected by your code.
Amen
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#6As someone who's Google ad account was mysteriously suspended for no given reason (even before a single ad was run) and am now up to 4 days waiting with no reply nor phone number I can call, I hear you..
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#7I’m sorry that you had that experience. Maybe enough up votes will get Google’s attention.
google dgaf
There are only a handful of extensions that are deal breakers (the lack of which would send users to other browsers). uBlock Origin, for example. All the others can fuck right off.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#8I don't understand how we've normalized Googles behavior to the point where this doesn't even shock me anymore. When I used Google Play Music a couple years ago there was a feature that was broken for YEARS according to the bug reports I could find, and in a classic Google move they shut the service down before ever fixing it.
That might sound like a non sequitur but it's ridiculous to me how little Google cares about anyone (users or the people who make content for their platforms) yet we still use their products. These days I try to avoid them wherever possible, not only for a small satisfaction of boycotting the company, but also because if I grow to like one of their products it will just shut down eventually.
What can we do about this?
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#9It is disgusting that no one from media asks Sundar Pichai touch questions like: 1. Non human (AI) usage for termination google accounts. 2. No repeal process At least some employee from Google here in hn must do things and understand mentality of other people. It increasingly looks like - well... we employees live in bubble but if you are unlucky then you are screwed. Do not ask us? What kind of programmers wrote su…
> What kind of programmers wrote such code that terminates account without human intervention? Please do not blame it on Project Managers.
One who gets paid half a million a year to not question the policies and their consequences and just does what they are told?
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#10It seems like trying to build a business on any Google property is simply a bad idea. Or, if you do, have an alternative ready for when Google shuts down the product or cancels your account.