How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)

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Post by Fiveplus » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 7:10 AM UTC

How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
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Post by blue_cookeh » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 8:54 AM UTC

Ah yes, typical Google support strikes again. Filled us with so much confidence we left Google Cloud.

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Post by Google234 » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 8:56 AM UTC

blue_cookeh wrote: post #2

Ah yes, typical Google support strikes again. Filled us with so much confidence we left Google Cloud.

I can find 100k examples of people angry with Amazon. Does that invalidate AWS?

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Post by vkowalski » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 8:58 AM UTC

Google234 wrote: post #3

blue_cookeh wrote: post #2

Ah yes, typical Google support strikes again. Filled us with so much confidence we left Google Cloud.

I can find 100k examples of people angry with Amazon. Does that invalidate AWS?

It's a question of trust not anger.

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Post by Google234 » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 8:59 AM UTC

vkowalski wrote: post #4

Google234 wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can find 100k examples of people angry with Amazon. Does that invalidate AWS?

It's a question of trust not anger.

Why do you think they are angry? You don’t think those people have lost trust in Amazon?

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Post by usrusr » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:03 AM UTC

Reminds me of how Mozilla once permanently obliterated every single extension at once except for a really tiny accept-list...

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Post by kranner » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:03 AM UTC

> You can still find the ad blocker extension here. However, you will not be able to run it. Chrome made changes so that extensions cannot be side-loaded without an enterprise profile.

You can currently sideload extensions in Chrome by turning on Developer Mode, right?

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Post by candiodari » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:05 AM UTC

Google234 wrote: post #5

vkowalski wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a question of trust not anger.

Why do you think they are angry? You don’t think those people have lost trust in Amazon?

I think people are angry because Google is really perceived to have been more trustworthy before than they are today. Hence there's a betrayal factor.

Amazon is like CPS: everybody's known you cannot trust them to properly handle and care for a plastic cactus and they were told this when they were 5 year old.

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Post by stevenjohns » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:08 AM UTC

Google234 wrote: post #5

vkowalski wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a question of trust not anger.

Why do you think they are angry? You don’t think those people have lost trust in Amazon?

I am not worried that Amazon would shut down all of AWS any time soon.

Can you honestly say it would be a complete surprise, however, if Google announced an EOL for GCP?

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Post by gray_-_wolf » Thu, Oct 22, 2020, 9:20 AM UTC

kranner wrote: post #7

> You can still find the ad blocker extension here. However, you will not be able to run it. Chrome made changes so that extensions cannot be side-loaded without an enterprise profile. You can currently sideload extensions in Chrome by turning on Developer Mode, right?

Which I think lasts only until you restart the browser? Hardly a good user experience..