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I always thought it was weird that my free extensions were distributed by a store. Expect Google to launch a new service with the same functionality and then deprecate the Chrome Web Store.
Haha, this is so ridiculous and completely on-brand for Google at this point. I've run a Google Music extension for a few years now and would have absolutely no migration path since I don't have a backend -- but it doesn't matter since they're shutting down Google Music anyway! A related fun fact: accounting data exports for extensions have been broken for me (and I think all extension merchants?) since April 2018. I…
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They're already drawn in. Epic sued Google too. But Epic doesn't have a Chrome extension, and Google Play Store payments aren't similarly deprecated.
Google isn't really like Apple in the monopolistic sense. You're free to install your own app store on a Gphone. Chrome extensions are a bit different because they have to be signed with another store by Google anyway.
The interesting thing here is that a commercial marketplace for browser extensions failed. That seems surprising - surely a marketplace for extensions to the most popular browser on the planet could bring in some revenue?! Is it just that nobody paid for things? Presumably they're going to keep running the chrome web store, so isn't a cut of paymens "free money" to them? Is there some big cost to this I'm not seeing,…
I dunno ... Google shuts things down independent of revenue metrics as far as I can tell. They seem to set a bar somewhere around "is this the next Gmail" and if the answer is no they shut it down regardless of how profitable it may be. They want a few giant businesses, not a hundred small ones. I wish they would look at spinning these things out because many of them would make entirely viable independent entities ev…
Confirming over and over: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...
Yep. I remember paying for the license to publish a joke extension I've made for chrome. Now I won't be able to make my money back, haha. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/crosstext/gnlobfhf...
I probably have the video showing this back and forth between me and facebook, if probably posted on my now deactivated facebook
The interesting thing here is that a commercial marketplace for browser extensions failed. That seems surprising - surely a marketplace for extensions to the most popular browser on the planet could bring in some revenue?! Is it just that nobody paid for things? Presumably they're going to keep running the chrome web store, so isn't a cut of paymens "free money" to them? Is there some big cost to this I'm not seeing,…
Haha, this is so ridiculous and completely on-brand for Google at this point. I've run a Google Music extension for a few years now and would have absolutely no migration path since I don't have a backend -- but it doesn't matter since they're shutting down Google Music anyway! A related fun fact: accounting data exports for extensions have been broken for me (and I think all extension merchants?) since April 2018. I…
How does one get the attorney general to write a letter like this?
It wasn't quick, but it did seem to work. Here's the timeline:
- May 2018: I contact Google about being unable to export my accounting data from last month
- November 2018: after nothing but "thank you for your patience" emails, I complain to the AG
- early February 2019: I get a letter in the mail from the AG saying they'd forwarded the complaint to Google
- late February 2019: Google finally gives me my data [edit: I'd had April originally, but that was a separate request].
I love that this "deprecation timeline" includes March 27 where this forgotten about payment API randomly broke.