I replied to the latest version update rejection email (referring to policies) from the Chrome Web Store. They actually replied and my latest extension revision went through. Point is, you can actually reply... there is a channel (form) in the Web Store as well, but of course you can only hope to get a reply.
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
#442Do you remember when browser extensions could be installed from a developer's own website and didn't require any kind of dysfunctional 'gatekeeping'? I know there are benefits to having someone vet browser extensions, but it seems a shame that they remove the self-distribution option completely when their moderation is so ineffectual.
I think you still can by clicking 'enable developer mode'? I get 'bypass paywalls' that way.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#443I definitely feel for the author - the Chrome Extension team has been growing increasingly developer-hostile recently. My own open-source extension HabitLab ( https://habitlab.stanford.edu/ ) that I've been maintaining for the past 3 years is going to be removed in 2 days (got a 14-day removal notice for permissions even though all permissions it requests are used and needed, and every update I try to submit is rejec…
Make your extension available on Firefox
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#444I definitely feel for the author - the Chrome Extension team has been growing increasingly developer-hostile recently. My own open-source extension HabitLab ( https://habitlab.stanford.edu/ ) that I've been maintaining for the past 3 years is going to be removed in 2 days (got a 14-day removal notice for permissions even though all permissions it requests are used and needed, and every update I try to submit is rejec…
Would be great if you ported HabitLab for Firefox
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#445Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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? I think you've already got it; don't use Google products. Ideally, pay for alternatives.
I honestly don't think this does anything besides give me a small satisfaction. I can't think of a time when voting with your wallet actually worked.
> I can't think of a time when voting with your wallet actually worked
I suppose it depends on how you count, but Fastmail seems like a good example.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#446Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steam predates any windows app store stuff by almost a decade, it wasn't a "panicked reaction" to anything.
Steam was nowhere near the app store we know today when it was created. It was Valve's auto-updater and match-making service. They had a few partner games using it as well. I may recall it badly but I am pretty sure they opened it to general companies and indie studios as a reaction to Windows 8 built-in app store: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377
I've been on steam since a while after it's genesis. IIRC the store aspect of steam started in 2006-2007, which is way before even windows 8 which only came out after 2011-2012
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#447Earlier quoted context omitted.
The other explanation is that they don't really want users to have most browser extensions. The browser extensions either become features that google wants to embed in the browser, or things they don't want, for business reasons. In either case it is better if the extension dies after a year or so. BTW, this doesn't have to be a conscious choice of anyone at Google, it could just be the way the incentives turn out.
A bookmarking service sounded to me like something Google wanted to operate themselves, and I was thinking maybe that was related to why it got taken down. At the same time, it seemed to not have had that many users yet, so, a bit early for Google to pay attention?
Google already has a bookmarking service at https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
I have stuff saved in there dating from 2007 to 2015. Used to use a Firefox extension to load them in the sidebar.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#448Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not sure how this would work legally with employment contracts, but it would be worth it to get your employees hired at Google so they can professionally execute that role for you. We have joked before about not poaching friends from Google since they are more valuable working there than at your company.
Ah, this might seem like a joke but it's true. I was part of a student association when I was an university student. Part of the activities was to host gnu/Linux courses record them and upload them to YouTube. One day, out of the blue, the channel goes dark and nobody knows why. We all panicked. We had received no warnings and there was no way to appeal. In the end, we asked some former students that were employed by…
This is bordering on dystopian monolithic megacorp nightmare.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#449Earlier quoted context omitted.
I meant trademark violations . My bad. I edited the post and added the missing word.
As someone else mentioned, your correction is also incorrect. One can violate trademark unintentionally.
No, my correction is fine. It helps if you read the sentence in its entirety rather than stop reading at the comma... you know... where I specifically go on to say "or" followed with a whole bit on how it can be violated unintentionally and give an example of such.
The next sentence also goes on to say that either one of those two needs to take place - again, referencing more than one way a trademark violation could take place.
Maybe my English wasn't clear. English isn't my first or my most recent language, so my grammar sometimes goes a bit funky.
Re: Unable to deal with Chrome Extension Team, Kozmos is shutting down
#450Earlier quoted context omitted.
In the links you've shared, I thought the author (Azer) was on the right to behave the way he did. I don't see it as a reason to discount his current experience because of that either.
They would have no case if they actually tried to go after him to "defend" their trademark. His mail was just empty threats. You can't just trademark 3 letters in a way so that nobody else can use them. In fact there's hundreds of trademarks that are the letters "kik" in various logos[1]. What they trademarked is a bunch of specific logos containing those letters. Doesn't prevent other people from also using those 3…
I'm tempered to rename my packages with a prefix "kik" just to fuck with them. I don't live in the US, so good luck enforcing their empty threats on me ;)