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They just changed it from today. It wasn't always like this, so the argument that all of a sudden they are trying to promote less popular extensions, is not ver

by pavs 17y ago

They just changed it from today. It wasn't always like this, so the argument that all of a sudden they are trying to promote less popular extensions, is not very reasonable. There is a "featured" section and "Today's Top Pick" section where they can promote as many extensions as they like. I am not saying it is necessarily a bad thing, they _are_ an online ad company, it is in their best interest to make sure less people use ad blockers. But lets not justify this action under the pretense of them trying to "promote" other extensions. Honestly, if I was in charge, I probably would have done the same.

mmastrac 17y ago
I'm afraid you are reading too much into this. A static list of most popular extensions reinforces the popularity of those top extensions over and over. There is no grand conspiracy to kill off or discourage adblocking extensions, only to promote as much variety in the ecosystem as possible. If they wanted to kill it off, they would have just gone and removed them from the gallery and posted a TOS update as they did with YouTube downloaders: http://blog.arpitnext.com/2009/12/google-rejected-youtube-downloader-extension.html http://blog.arpitnext.com/2009/12/google-rejected-youtube-do...
- pavs 17y ago
  I never said they want to kill it off or implied anything like that. I stated the obvious that they are trying to make it less accessible to get ad blockers because it is in their interest. You claim that they are trying to promote less popular extensions, which you have no way to know because they just started removing the most used popular list from the front page _today_. Unless you work for Google, or had any conversation from anyone from Google regarding this in the last 24 hours, how can you claim such a thing?
  - aboodman 17y ago
    I work for Google, on Google Chrome extensions. The change to the gallery was actually made awhile ago, and discussed here: http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/e8064192990c8f9e http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-exten... mmastrac is correct. We always wanted the front page to work this way, we just didn't get to it in time for ship day. The idea is to spread the wealth a bit on the front page. Otherwise the lead the frontrunners have becomes difficult to challenge.
    - pavs 17y ago
      Thanks for clearing this up. I just noticed the change from today too. BTW, I am a big fan of GreaseMonkey and I really appreciate your work on it and thanks for porting it to Chrome. :)

by pavs 17y ago

mmastrac 17y ago

I'm afraid you are reading too much into this. A static list of most popular extensions reinforces the popularity of those top extensions over and over. There is no grand conspiracy to kill off or discourage adblocking extensions, only to promote as much variety in the ecosystem as possible. If they wanted to kill it off, they would have just gone and removed them from the gallery and posted a TOS update as they did with YouTube downloaders: http://blog.arpitnext.com/2009/12/google-rejected-youtube-downloader-extension.html http://blog.arpitnext.com/2009/12/google-rejected-youtube-do...

pavs 17y ago
I never said they want to kill it off or implied anything like that. I stated the obvious that they are trying to make it less accessible to get ad blockers because it is in their interest. You claim that they are trying to promote less popular extensions, which you have no way to know because they just started removing the most used popular list from the front page _today_. Unless you work for Google, or had any conversation from anyone from Google regarding this in the last 24 hours, how can you claim such a thing?
- aboodman 17y ago
  I work for Google, on Google Chrome extensions. The change to the gallery was actually made awhile ago, and discussed here: http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/e8064192990c8f9e http://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/group/chromium-exten... mmastrac is correct. We always wanted the front page to work this way, we just didn't get to it in time for ship day. The idea is to spread the wealth a bit on the front page. Otherwise the lead the frontrunners have becomes difficult to challenge.
  - pavs 17y ago
    Thanks for clearing this up. I just noticed the change from today too. BTW, I am a big fan of GreaseMonkey and I really appreciate your work on it and thanks for porting it to Chrome. :)