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

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

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Post by StavrosK »

stevenjohns wrote: post #9
Google234 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Yeah, I mean, I get their huge history shutting down small ancillary projects that they didn't see as strategic advantages, but GCP isn't one of those, and probably not for the foreseeable future.

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

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Post by miked85 »

stevenjohns wrote: post #9
Google234 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

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

All of GCP? That would surprise me. Any particular GCP offering I may depend on that they decided to deprecate or replace? Absolutely.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

cookiengineer wrote: post #14
gray_-_wolf wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Why not use Ungoogled Chromium [1] instead? Developer Mode is active forever, and no Google-centric integrations. [1] https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

That's a weird way to spell Firefox...

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

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Post by Anka33 »

mywacaday wrote: post #24

As a user paying extra for google storage the constant flow of stories of people having issues with google and nobody to contact scare me. What happens if I loose access to my account and loose gmail/photos/drive. What do people use to backup Google?

Microsoft seems like a safer option

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

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Post by zenopopovici »

dep_b wrote: post #21

We had an issue with getting a new Android app we wrote that accessing the call logs for a legit business case (something that would benefit the user alone, not in any case sent to us) reviewed and it took months to resolve it. The best thing was emailing and waiting for another week or so, hoping the case would be picked up by a human being that would take the effort to really look into the issue. Now Apple doesn't…

Apple actually handled my situation a lot better and didn’t block me. I am the original author.

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

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Post by dmortin »

mywacaday wrote: post #24

As a user paying extra for google storage the constant flow of stories of people having issues with google and nobody to contact scare me. What happens if I loose access to my account and loose gmail/photos/drive. What do people use to backup Google?

You should never have a single backup of anything. Google storage is nice, but you should duplicate everything you put there (also true for any other storage service).

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

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Post by fakedang »

StavrosK wrote: post #30
fakedang wrote: post #11

To be expected of a company where you get better support from their cloud service employees on reddit rather than on their actual website or emails.

They're in the short list of companies that practice shame-based support.

What's that?

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

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Post by thedanbob »

malikNF wrote: post #23

I wonder how long before we start hearing stories like "How chrome obliterated my 4 year old website" On a serious note though, why do we keep getting trapped in this cycle so many times? Company walled garden(WG) comes up with a WG, developers build for that WG. WG forgets about the people who made the WG a fun place for everyone to be in. WG screws over the old developers who's hard work it build itself on. And the…

Money. A new walled garden is a new opportunity for developers to make money, with little competition (at first). Then when it gets big and there’s tons of competition, the company can stop caring about the developers and still make a pile of money.

It’s going to keep happening because walled gardens appeal to human nature. Everyone (users, developers) wants the immediate benefits, but only the company reaps long-term. The only solution is to fix human nature.

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

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Post by dmortin »

stevenjohns wrote: post #9
Google234 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Even if they did, for such a big service there would be a long transition period. E.g. 2 years, so you could move somewhere else.
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