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This is sad but they're just responding to market hysteria on permissions.
I use a flavor of Chrome called Ungoogled Chrome (https://ungoogled-software.github.io/) and the only way to install plugins is to manually install the CRX file.
Any reason that Google doesn't give reasons and ways to comply? I haven't ever had to deal with a Google person regarding Android development, but when I built stuff for Blackberry (miss that company), they always provided nice and detailed feedback. Blackberry famously let legal influence design, so I would be surprised if it was a cover your ass thing.
Do you have a source or link for this at all for further reading? A quick search doesn't turn up anything, but it sounds like a great read
This is concerning. Shouldn’t Google’s store have a dedicated support rep for extensions above a certain threshold?
This is a good extension but here is a cool hack I've discovered that let's you do this anywhere without any chrome extensions: - Create a new whatsgroupp called 'ping self' and add your friend to it. - Then kick your friend out from this group - Open web.whatsapp.com and now you can access your messages, files, photos across any device anywhere, anytime! (telegram also does this and allows file up to 1gb)
I’m not linking to any specific QR code extension because I haven’t audited them for privacy but it’s easy to find one that claims to generate the QR code locally.
What kind of people make these decision at Google? Engineers? Or did they automate everything with "machine learning"?
This is a good extension but here is a cool hack I've discovered that let's you do this anywhere without any chrome extensions: - Create a new whatsgroupp called 'ping self' and add your friend to it. - Then kick your friend out from this group - Open web.whatsapp.com and now you can access your messages, files, photos across any device anywhere, anytime! (telegram also does this and allows file up to 1gb)
Any reason that Google doesn't give reasons and ways to comply? I haven't ever had to deal with a Google person regarding Android development, but when I built stuff for Blackberry (miss that company), they always provided nice and detailed feedback. Blackberry famously let legal influence design, so I would be surprised if it was a cover your ass thing.
Another happy PushBullet user here. Extremely useful for receiving text messages from my phone while on my laptop, especially for web apps that insist on sending security codes that way instead of TOTP. This sort of behavior from Google really is infuriating. How they can just decide to boot an app from the Chrome Store that is installed by over a million users is mind-boggling. It's a pity that Chrome doesn't allow…
Why would anyone want to do that? What's a real pity is that they make every effort to block users from installing their own extensions. App stores are terrible.
I don't know if it is an artifact of overusing machine learning "our neural network trained on a variety of malware gives your app a score of 4.3, you have 15 days to get it down to 4.0". How is that calculated? No one knows, maybe you shouldn't use the location permission if your icon is red and your domain is not in .org, or something like that.
Or maybe it is a form of security by obscurity. Or maybe they just don't want to pay for people to support you. Who knows?