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If you have a half-decent router or firewall, this won’t work from outside the network.
Huh? What kind of router would filter out 127.x responses by default? Also, this wouldn't work with DoH enabled which is where we're heading with browsers.
I think the interpretation that Google does this because it does not want to compromise the review process to malicious extension authors is a very generous one. As others pointed out, a motivated enough entity could very well be probing the system using multiple submissions (sure it gets your account banned, just use several accounts). No what is really going on is that Google wants the ability to reject an app for…
don't create extensions. create browser controllers. you can release them as binaries. anyone can download them. They instrument chrome using the remote devtools API. an oss example here: https://github.com/dosyago/22120 and an idea I have for a browse controllers store here. https://github.com/dosyago/browsercontrollers.store
Absent blaring warnings like “you understand that if you build any type of business on this platform we reserve the right to destroy it at any time for any reason”, it’s pretty hard to see how users had any ability to understand the implicit and explicit contracts they were entering into.
This isn’t much different than “Nathan for You” style hiding of onerous terms deep in hilariously small fine print, and judges tend not to look fondly on such games.
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)
Telegram's built-in "Saved Messages" is where I share links, files, text snippets, photos, etc. for follow up and archiving; seamlessly between my devices and the Telegram desktop app.
Telegram also has an export feature, so I can backup all (thousands) of saved URLs, messages, media files, and so on for offline safe keeping; both in human and machine-readable formats.
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Are you making a good faith suggestion that it's possible to build a business around a browser extension and not support Google Chrome? They have something like 70% market share dude...
Chrome’s market share would drop if extension authors moved to an alternative. As it is, it sounds like Google’s doing this itself by breaking popular extensions.
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Zero chance this will happen without a much bigger party involved
Under the Clayton Act, the Sherman Act, or both? Is this a legal realism commentary on the comparative cost-benefit of civil antitrust litigation in modern America? Or are you just pretending you know things to feel good on the internet.
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It's so difficult to imagine a) getting ahold of someone at Google who can actually help you, and b) having some sense of assurance that they will actually help you. "Google deleted my X" posts always rise to the top on HN because they elicit a strong emotional response from developers. I think it's worthwhile to reflect on why that happens. For me, it's because I absolutely despise seeing an algorithm have control o…
I don't understand how people work for these companies as developers and implement these policies and systems and aren't just as angry about it and don't stand up to their supervisors over it: if frankly makes me have a really low opinion of people who work for Google, Apple, etc. :/.
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don't create extensions. create browser controllers. you can release them as binaries. anyone can download them. They instrument chrome using the remote devtools API. an oss example here: https://github.com/dosyago/22120 and an idea I have for a browse controllers store here. https://github.com/dosyago/browsercontrollers.store
hm, interesting, though I'd worry that running a server on localhost might be a little more than most people would bargain for
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I can only assume that this isn't the result of a human flagging Pushbullet like this; I expect it's an automated system. And if that automated system can make a decision to flag the extension, it could also include in the email specifically what caused that flagging to happen. At this point I'm really starting to become unsympathetic to the idea that they can't tell you what you're doing wrong because it'll enable p…
I agree, and will go further in that I believe they actually should have such an obligation: it should be a consumer right to find out why you were denied access to a platform--or a restaurant, or a barber shop, or a wedding cake maker, or whatever else that someone is refusing you service due to, as a business operating in the public--and that whatever reason that is must be something that either 1) has nothing to d…
If you say "personal attacks aren't allowed", they'll say "I wasn't attacking him personally, I just suggested that anyone who says [the thing he said] should consider getting evaluated by a doctor for mental retardation."
At some point you just have to say "I know what you're doing, you're clearly not acting in good faith, and I have to ban you." Are all of those people now potential lawsuits?