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When I read something like this I have to assume Google is just trying to kill off extensions, it's such a glaringly obvious problem there's no way any human ha
by thatguy0900 6y ago
When I read something like this I have to assume Google is just trying to kill off extensions, it's such a glaringly obvious problem there's no way any human has seen and okay'd it with good intentions.
- aaanotherhnfolk 6y agoI'm the person at $dayjob who has to chart a course through the recent chrome web store changes and this is honestly my conclusion too. These extensions don't make any money at all for Google, in fact some of them lose money for Google (privacy oriented extensions, ironically.) They are a security nightmare for Google, capable of side channel browser attacks or direct abuse via a permission (all_urls permission can read your emails to grandma.) Google doesn't want extensions to exist, and they also can't outright kill them without creating a new foothold for their competitors in the browser wars. So we get this intentionally masochistic process change. Jump this high or we'll ban you. Now jump higher but with your eyes closed. Okay, now backflip or you're banned. The extension developers have absolutely no power to fight back.