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?
Amazon is pretty customer centric.
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)
#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously this Firefox update was a massive bait-and-switch for me. I was on holiday and out of the loop on how big of change this Phoenix upgrade would be, got a notification on Android to update firefox and went through without realizing the massive UX and functionality downgrade this Firefox version is. Apart from the non-starter of missing add-ons, the whole UX overhaul is insane, so many things that use to be fr…
I've been using it from day 1 since it was known as Firefox Preview (way before it landed in nightly) and I have very little to complain about. uBO, Privacy Badger, and DecentralEyes are all the extensions I need. Stuff renders quicker, I can swipe between tabs, reader mode is there. Sure, it might take one additional tap to open a new tab, but I'm fine with that. I'm now using nightly, so I experience an occasional…
> uBO, Privacy Badger, and DecentralEyes are all the extensions I need.
I want Stylus.
> Sure, it might take one additional tap to open a new tab, but I'm fine with that.
Why? Why regress? What possible use did it serve?
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#83Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you for this background detail! So actually instead of google, it was FB who with trademark protection legislation took down the app.
An important question is, did Google ever tell the author who made the complaint so he could contact them or countersue? From the mails that are shown they don’t reveal anything apart from ‘a third party acting on behalf of Facebook’.
It's clearly stated in the email, it was company called Appdetex on behalf of Facebook. It even has a name of the person who submitted the claim.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#84I 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…
> I wonder how long before we start hearing stories like "How chrome obliterated my 4 year old website" March 2021 is that date, when Google will entirely drop all content that is not made for mobile phones: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-mobile-index-news... Seriously, fuck that shit. Google is the gatekeeper to the Internet for many people, they should not be allowed to essentially throw away two and a…
It's not quite that scary. They're removing content that the site operator explicitly made unavailable to mobile phones. Old pre-mobile sites will be fine. I would direct the "fuck that shit" to those websites that actively decide to give mobile users less information, lower resolution images (even when you zoom in @&@#!), text that goes off the screen while scrolling is disabled, so you can never see it, etc.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#85I 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.
Recently my employer started limited internal resources (intranet) to chrome/edge/IE. As a Firefox user, it makes me so angry every time I click a link and get served a page that says I need to switch browsers.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#86Ran a online retail business for 12 years. One day, Adwords account suspended. Some generic 'voilation' email. No way to resolve, no person to speak to, no comment on the issue. Tried to resolve for months. Fired 15 staff, gave up. Basically the internet = Google when you run online retail.
Not according to my analysis [1]. Also if you take a look at sites that specialize in e-commerce founder interviews, you’ll see that they use all sorts of acquisition channels/strategies (partnerships with mini influencers, FB/Instagram Ads, SEO, affiliate programs and so on) and they work really well. I would understand if you said “the internet = Google for MY retail store”, but saying it applies for all online ret…
Nobody cares about your "analysis."
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#87I'm just curious. Is AWS similar? I never heard an AWS horror story.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#88As 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 download regular backups of my Google data from https://takeout.google.com/ it works pretty well. It won't help you keep your email address if Google decide to nuke your account but at least you've still got your emails, photos, etc.
Can confirm, I have used this to grab all my Google Music data before they nuked that. Turns out there's a json file for every single track in your library, and it contains metrics like play count, start / stop position, playlists, etc. Kinda creepy, but in hindsight it's not unexpected.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
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Pretty sure that's against tos..
And.... Who cares? Given Google's absurdly shitty behavior to so many users, its opacity, frequent mendacity, casual indifference to small organizations and let's not even go into all the gory details of its globe-spanning not-even-disregard-but-outright-hatred for any notion of privacy, I'd say anyone who can subvert its TOS and get away with doing so simply to save their livelihood deserves applause much more than…
Even if I don't care about the morality/legality of it, I probably wouldn't bother. Google knows every profile and IP address I've ever used. It would be trivial for them to detect this, and close it down again. It's just not worth the effort.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#90As 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 use both Google and Dropbox. Photos, for instance, are backed up on both services. Full resolution on Dropbox and whatever resolution on GPhotos. Dropbox is my real backup because it syncs to my PCs, and Photos is my convenient AI searchable backup for when I'm looking for a photo quickly.
And since Gmail's inception, I've been using a forwarded pop (edit: I meant imap) address from a custom domain. I've been accessing my forwarded mail through Gmail for 15-ish years now. I remember there's some fiddling in the settings and you have to make sure when you respond to an email that it responds with your custom address. But I've never had an issue all these years, and if Gmail were to drop tomorrow, I still have all my mail.