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.
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)
#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Just about everyone now has at least one example of a service they loved being killed off by google.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#13> 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..
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#14> 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..
Why not use Ungoogled Chromium [1] instead? Developer Mode is active forever, and no Google-centric integrations.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#15Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#16Reminds me of how Mozilla once permanently obliterated every single extension at once except for a really tiny accept-list...
On mobile, that is.
On desktop they just shot themselves in the foot by removing some off their competitive advantage. (On desktop they are still way ahead of Chrome when it comes to extensions, but it is nothing compared to before when they was in another league completely.)
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#17It'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 terrible discovery... Why should we develop for such a hostile ecosystem?
Perhaps I lucked out by developing all my extensions as cross-browser web extensions. I've been submitting them all to as many repositories as I can - Chrome, Mozilla, Edge, and Opera.
I feel bad for the author who doesn't have the ability to move their extension to a different browser. Chrome lock-in is a travesty.
[1] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/17/coursera-quiz-pr...
[2] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/10/15/coursera-playbac...
[3] https://churchofthought.org/blog/2020/01/20/a-simple-webexte...
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#18Earlier 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
> Why not use Ungoogled Chromium [1] instead?
Why not use Firefox instead? Then you've solved the problem for good.
Re: How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)
#19> 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..
It works forever, but every time you launch the browser you get a popup asking you if you know what you are doing.
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#20Earlier 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?
Yes. I can honestly say this would be extremely surprising given the tenants, and the rate of change of the core kubernetes model. I do not believe the dead products list typically has either this paying customer base, or code change.