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Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by jaywalk »

AaronFriel wrote: post #59
graham_paul wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

elaborate on the ublock nerfing?

Chrome's Extension v3 API will remove the ability for uBlock Origin to filter web requests in code, instead the application will have to submit a list of URLs to filter to an internal API and this list has a maximum size and limits the flexibility of the URL filtering. See the uBlock Origin author's post: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338#iss... This is ironic, because uBlock implements an extr…

> In fact, this change is meant to give developers a way to create safer and more performant ad blockers.

Imagine anyone actually believing Google is trying to help ad blockers. What a dumb thing for them to even say.

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by tiborsaas »

deepender99 wrote: post #5

Well this is my favorite Extension, If Google kills it then how will users gets its pushbullet chat data back.

What's more is that chat history is broken, I can't see tons of messages on the web interface.

You can still access some on the web.

But your best option is to do a GDPR request to export you all your data.

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by patwalls »

gowld wrote: post #96
patwalls wrote: post #27

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Because they are attempting to automate all of it. This message is generic and based on some analysis of the "manifest.json". They have also turned off all reviews in the Chrome Web Store: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22935092

Huh? They turned off reviews because a worldwide pandemic eliminated their ability to maintain staff to moderate reviews. That's the opposite of "automating it".

I'm not saying that's why they turned them off, just another sign that Google is not investing time/money/resources into the Chrome Web store.

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Post by kadoban »

theshrike79 wrote: post #111
bcrosby95 wrote: post #105

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Switching email isn't nearly as friction-free as switching your browser. Not only do you have to change your email in every service you've registered for, you also need to convince your friends and other contacts to use the new email.

It's a year-long project in the minimum: 1: Start up new email (for me it was Fastmail) and preferably get your own domain 2: Forward all mail from gmail to your new account 3: Create a rule that flags messages that are still delivered to gmail, go through them at your leisure and swap to the new address

I'd stress the "get your own domain" part. This is a _requirement_, or you're going to be going through the same pain again in a few years.

Also, make sure you take backups of your old emails every once in a while. Google Checkout should be able to provide those.

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Post by nsgf »

patwalls wrote: post #18

Chrome extension developer here. Google ripped my Chrome extension off the app store about a month ago. I got a similar cryptic message, and then I scrambled to fix it, like you're doing now. Somehow my extension reappeared the next day. Email me pat [at] trypigeon [dot] co and I can send you some of the things I did that maybe have helped. Tweeting my support as well: https://twitter.com/thepatwalls/status/126063896…

> trypigeon [dot] co

Unrelated, but you got multiple ids with value 'feature-1' on your landing page.

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Post by bromonkey »

msla wrote: post #100
JTbane wrote: post #30

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Mozilla doesn't have the conflict of interest google does with ads... That alone makes me use Firefox over Chrome.

It does: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/7/17326184/firefox-ads-spons...

Yep, the three clicks it takes to disable that really drives me nuts.

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by chrischen »

We spend a quite a bit on Google Ads yet they seem to refuse devoting even a few minutes of a knowledgable support staff’s time to our account—even when we’re trying to figure out how to give them more money. For 1-2 years our product shopping ads never displayed and we couldn’t get anyone to tell us why. One day, it just started working by itself (perhaps some engineer pushed a fix).

Contrast this with their sales strategy of aggressively making a human call me every quarter to try to up my budgets. I’m not sure why they are so against helping people succeed with their products...

It’s like they are allergic to manual human processes (unless it’s sales).

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Post by wayneftw »

derefr wrote: post #86
the_jeremy wrote: post #51

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Who do you trust? Certainly not Chromium-Edge. That leaves "only browse the internet on a Mac with Safari" or browsers with such tiny market share that they'll never be tested against, and sites will routinely be broken for you. My company doesn't do any non-Chrome compatibility testing, so all our intranet sites require Chrome.

> Who do you trust? Certainly not Chromium-Edge. Why not? Chromium (= Blink, plus some other stuff like a network request stack) development happens in the open, just like WebKit development. It might be steered by Google to such an extent that there's always the possibility of it going in a bad direction; but it's not like you're not going to hear about it if something privacy-violating is introduced into the Chromi…

I wanted to like Edge but...

> The browser also sends unique hardware identifiers to Microsoft, which is a "strong and enduring identifier" that cannot be easily changed or deleted.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/research-fin...

Re: Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

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Post by RcouF1uZ4gsC »

bcrosby95 wrote: post #105
jtxx wrote: post #64

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ProtonMail has come a long way as a replacement for Gmail as well. Suuuper happy with them, they're really responsive to feature requests and support inquiries. I requested for an iOS feature to choose browsers so I could open all links from PM in Firefox. They had it implemented in a month or something... it a quick fix but that impressed me. hence me shilling here They recently added ProtonCalendar too.

Switching email isn't nearly as friction-free as switching your browser. Not only do you have to change your email in every service you've registered for, you also need to convince your friends and other contacts to use the new email.

The most important change you can make for your email is to own your own domain. Once you own your own domain, changing providers is much easier since it is transparent to the people that email you.

Even if you decide to keep Gmail, you should switch your email to your own domain.

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