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Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

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Post by hnbad »

Just a recommendation: the site calls itself "Extensions Hub" despite the domain being "extensionhub.site". This is confusing and makes the site less trustworthy. Additionally "extensionhub.site" doesn't sound super trustworthy to me to begin with (maybe because the TLD is rare and "extensionhub" sounds a lot bigger than how it presents itself).

If the idea is to host other extensions on it as well, I'd suggest putting a little more effort into it so it feels like something that actually has extensions on it rather than blog posts. The page for the extension itself for example has none of the usual links or info about the author of the extension (the date and author feel like they're part of a blog post ABOUT the extension, not info about the extension itself because of the layout) and the actual link for the extension itself is a direct download link in the prose of the article itself.

This may be because I'm European but the complete lack of info about who operates the site (no privacy policy, just a twitter link and a copyright statement linking back to the site itself) screams "scam" to me on top of the impression that this is a blog trying to present itself as an extension store.

Please take this as constructive feedback but if I saw this site in the wild I'd assume it's malware.

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#12

Post by jayass »

dewey wrote: post #10

Any reason to use that one that only seems to list "Medium" as supported vs the often linked https://12ft.io (Unsure if official or inofficial extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/12ft/nmccamaemgaap... )? Edit: Unfortunately https://12ft.io seems to be down right now, I hope it's temporary.

The fact that only list medium does not mean that do not work on another sites. It should work on most sites but was mainly tested on medium.

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#13

Post by swills »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #8
swills wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite the name, https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome supports both Chrome and Firefox.

Since the Firefox installation is an .xpi file, I assume it's also blocked by Mozilla? Not saying I'm surprised, though, giving the nature of the extension.

Not sure, perhaps the author of that one just hasn't tried to get it approved. There's also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywal... and a number of other ones for Firefox that don't look to be blocked, so I don't think Mozilla is taking the same stance.

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#14

Post by [deleted] »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #8
swills wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite the name, https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome supports both Chrome and Firefox.

Since the Firefox installation is an .xpi file, I assume it's also blocked by Mozilla? Not saying I'm surprised, though, giving the nature of the extension.

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Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#15

Post by jayass »

dewey wrote: post #10

Any reason to use that one that only seems to list "Medium" as supported vs the often linked https://12ft.io (Unsure if official or inofficial extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/12ft/nmccamaemgaap... )? Edit: Unfortunately https://12ft.io seems to be down right now, I hope it's temporary.

If you the previous extension that was blocked https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/beat-that-wall/fhp... you can see that it has way more downloads than https://12ft.io

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#16

Post by thrdbndndn »

dewey wrote: post #10

Any reason to use that one that only seems to list "Medium" as supported vs the often linked https://12ft.io (Unsure if official or inofficial extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/12ft/nmccamaemgaap... )? Edit: Unfortunately https://12ft.io seems to be down right now, I hope it's temporary.

I don't think it's temporary, if what the reviews say is to believe it has been dead for a while and has questionable practice to begin with.

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#17

Post by jayass »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #16
dewey wrote: post #10

Any reason to use that one that only seems to list "Medium" as supported vs the often linked https://12ft.io (Unsure if official or inofficial extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/12ft/nmccamaemgaap... )? Edit: Unfortunately https://12ft.io seems to be down right now, I hope it's temporary.

I don't think it's temporary, if what the reviews say is to believe it has been dead for a while and has questionable practice to begin with.

They suffer from the same problem. They can't update the extension because google changed the policies. Now any attempt to remove paywalls is not allowed

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

#18

Post by dewey »

thrdbndndn wrote: post #16
dewey wrote: post #10

Any reason to use that one that only seems to list "Medium" as supported vs the often linked https://12ft.io (Unsure if official or inofficial extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/12ft/nmccamaemgaap... )? Edit: Unfortunately https://12ft.io seems to be down right now, I hope it's temporary.

I don't think it's temporary, if what the reviews say is to believe it has been dead for a while and has questionable practice to begin with.

I don't think that extension was an official one, it was not linked from the website so the reviews / download count don't really say much.

https://web.archive.org/web/20220824175226/https://12ft.io/

Re: Google blocked my Chrome extension so I created a website to host it

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Post by jayass »

hnbad wrote: post #11

Just a recommendation: the site calls itself "Extensions Hub" despite the domain being "extensionhub.site". This is confusing and makes the site less trustworthy. Additionally "extensionhub.site" doesn't sound super trustworthy to me to begin with (maybe because the TLD is rare and "extensionhub" sounds a lot bigger than how it presents itself). If the idea is to host other extensions on it as well, I'd suggest putti…

Hi thanks for your feedback. The idea was to lunch quick and cheap, that's way I choose a .site TLD.

If this grow enough in the next few months I will change some things including the TLD.

Adding privacy policy is the next step. Again thanks for your constructive feedback.

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