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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 jamil7 »

Daniel_sk wrote: post #27
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?

Leave Google, use separate services. I solved it by purchasing my own domain address, moving from Gmail to Fastmail, replaced Android with iOS, replaced Chrome with Firefox, moved my passwords to 1Password, moved from Google Photos to iCloud (it automatically downloads all your pictures to your desktop as backup. There is no such thing for Google Photos).

Did pretty much the same although replace Fastmail with Protonmail. I use S3Glacier storage for backups, costs virtually nothing. I keep the gmail account around as something to hand out to spammy websites and other services or forms IRL.

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

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Post by goldenkey »

zenopopovici wrote: post #28
goldenkey wrote: post #17

It's really disappointing for me to hear this, considering that I have been releasing chrome extensions for the past year. [1,2,3] One thing I've noticed is that Chrome's extension search is absolute garbage, and even typing the exact name of my extensions, for example "Wikipedia Section Links" [3], doesn't yield my extension, not even on the first page, and the second page is rather hidden and not obvious. Pretty te…

I did. It’s avaliable for Safari. https://apps.graffino.com I’m the original author. It happens a while back ago though. I never developed for Chrome again.

Ah, glad to hear that - its our duty to support better browsers!

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

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Post by jamil7 »

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…

We're already starting to see "website works best in Chrome" type messages around the internet so I assumed it's only a matter of time before people stop testing in other browsers entirely.

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

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Post by StavrosK »

fakedang wrote: post #38
StavrosK wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What's that?

It's where you have to shame them by publishing an article on HN/reddit/wherever about how they screwed you before they'll fix your problem.

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Post by jlokier »

fakedang wrote: post #38
StavrosK wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What's that?

It's where you can't get support except by getting a successful post on social media that shames the company into dealing with your issue.

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

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Post by playpause »

thedanbob wrote: post #39
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-ter…

Failing that, maybe change some laws and regulations.

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Post by accountofme »

fakedang wrote: post #38
StavrosK wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What's that?

You publicly shame them via twitter,reddit,medium,hackernews for a support response.

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

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Post by suhastech »

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?

I was in the exact same position a few years ago. I ended up building an email backup app.

https://thehorcrux.com/about/

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