Confirming over and over: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...
https://killedbygoogle.com/ This is my favorite site tracking stuff like this.
Too bad the site is just whitepage without javascript.
Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
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Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
What "healthy economy of paid software" previously existed here? The only other site for browser extensions I'm aware of which predated the Chrome Web Store was addons.mozilla.org, and that never supported paid extensions at all.
Whatever you would use a browser extension to do now, there was probably a standalone application to do the same thing before. The original vision of the web didn't just have "sites with servers" and "consumers with browsers", but rather tons of potential independent "User-Agents" that would perform tasks on behalf of people. The consolidation of the web into just browsers, and subsequent flipflopping between creatio…
The last browser extension i used that was basically an app was chatzilla for firefox, and that was a long time ago. I can't even think of an extension that would make sense as an independent app, let alone one i would pay for.
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#73The 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,…
Nobody has ever managed to sell a web browser (Netscape's problem), im not sure why people would buy extensions when they wouldn't be willing to buy a browser.
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The problem today is that nobody can even make a browser. Even Microsoft failed, and was forced to adopt Chromium. The web has become far too complex.
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://killedbygoogle.com/ This is my favorite site tracking stuff like this.
Too bad the site is just whitepage without javascript.
I'm sure they'd appreciate your pull request to fix that: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#75The 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 use Chrome since day 1 and today I learned you can buy extensions, that should give you some perspective.
I _work_ on chrome and today I learned you can buy extensions.
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#76Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#77Confirming over and over: https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/dear-google-cloud-your-depre...
https://killedbygoogle.com/ This is my favorite site tracking stuff like this.
The problem is they just start way way too many things. Almost everything on that list I have never heard of and probably had very few users. Most other web companies are careful about starting a new service or adding a new feature because it means committing to supporting it for a long time. Google just starts 1 billion projects a year and kills everything that isn't a smash hit meaning you can't depend on anything they release.
Although about 70% of this list was rightfully killed. Stuff like youtube for 3ds and then it includes things that were simply renamed or updated.
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
See the other thread where a Google employee offers to make it right.
I appreciate that he had sympathy, but I think max he can do is refund $25. I think that that amount is the least of concern to the most developers.
yeah, I've made my money back so I'm not as concerned about the $25, but there goes any chance of growing the revenue in any meaningful way.
I am getting a kick out of all the people here saying that "no one pays for extensions". I've consistently made $50-100 from mine with no marketing whatsoever.
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
On a recommendation from a friend I filed a complaint online at https://ag.ny.gov/internet/online-forms . I wrote up the situation and attached a pdf copy of the support interaction I'd had with Google. 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 patien…
Sorry if this is obvious, but if I may ask, how did you file your taxes in the meantime, given that this took a full year?
I noticed the issue in May 2018, so getting my data in February was just in time for 2019 reporting (I had mixed up the timestamps when I originally wrote I got the data in April).
Re: Chrome Web Store payments deprecation
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://killedbygoogle.com/ This is my favorite site tracking stuff like this.
The problem is they just start way way too many things. Almost everything on that list I have never heard of and probably had very few users. Most other web companies are careful about starting a new service or adding a new feature because it means committing to supporting it for a long time. Google just starts 1 billion projects a year and kills everything that isn't a smash hit meaning you can't depend on anything…
Google doesn't only kill unpopular things. If it did, you can depend on those things that have already become popular by not being an early adopter, which then becomes a chicken-and-egg problem that at least provides some strategic level of negative feedback to Google.