Chrome Web Store payments deprecation • Hacker News Board

Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

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Post by summitsummit » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 1:54 AM UTC

mikro2nd wrote: post #146

summitsummit wrote: post #10

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and annoying. you're charging your most loyal users the cost of providing proof after all these years.

Or don't. Just ask users to tell you (without any burden of proof) if they've been paying less. Will a handful of users abuse this? Probably. My bet is that the vast majority are honest people -- particularly if the circumstances are clearly and simply communicated -- and will not take undue advantage. The upside is that you won't be pissing off the honest majority, and the cost is probably (admittedly un provably )…

> My bet is that the vast majority are honest people

what makes you believe this? feel like this is Hobbes vs Rousseau

Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

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Post by roryokane » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 2:25 AM UTC

skinnymuch wrote: post #157

dx87 wrote: post #152

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I'm still mad about Inbox. I moved over to it from Gmail because they said that it was going to be the future of Gmail when it launched. Instead, they abandoned it.

How much of Inbox’s features were moved over to Gmail? Will more be moved over? I never used Inbox.

Many of Inbox's features were moved over, such as Snoozing emails, but far from all of the features. I doubt they will move over more — if they had wanted to they would have done it when they shut down Inbox.

The biggest feature I miss from Inbox is the integration of TODOs and emails: you could create editable TODOs in your inbox as easily as composing a new email, and when viewing am email thread, you could create a TODO attached to an email thread (e.g. “review the attached document and reply with my feedback”).

Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

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Post by roryokane » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 2:32 AM UTC

stefan_ wrote: post #19

I love that this "deprecation timeline" includes March 27 where this forgotten about payment API randomly broke.

"Broke" is an overstatement. The post says they only disabled using the API to sell new paid extensions or in-app items. Existing extensions were not affected, except extensions that added brand-new features since March and wanted to charge users separately for them.

Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

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Post by fattynoparents » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 4:46 AM UTC

seanwilson wrote: post #109

I think people are missing that you can still charge for extension, just not with Google's payment system. Anyway, called this well over a year ago - whenever anyone asked for tips on how to integrate Chrome payments into their extension I would strongly recommend against it. If you read the Chrome extension developers forums, you would have seen frequent posts about the payment system breaking, plus it was lacking l…

Hi I wrote you to sw@seanw.org from fattynoparents@gmail.com, could you please help me? Thanks.

Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation

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Post by skinnymuch » Thu, Sep 24, 2020, 5:02 PM UTC

atum47 wrote: post #167

skinnymuch wrote: post #161

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I might be misunderstanding. Why would FB do anything about something you or any other single person is doing?

Well, you tell me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrsKz1py7co

Thanks! That’s pretty cool