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Have a look at this https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1261159338170658816 https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1261159338170658816 and the surrounding discussion.

Have a look at this https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1261159338170658816 https://twitter.com/ArtemR/status/1261159338170658816 and the surrounding discussion. This is basically the only person at Google who can make things happen if there's a problem with Chrome extensions.

Guzba 6y ago
This was low-key shocking to learn. What if this all happened while he was on vacation?
- deleted 6y ago
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robk 6y ago
Or the pm whoever that is now
on_and_off 6y ago
If it works the same way as the play store does, the DA has little to do with that. A play store advocate can not look up why your app got rejected, they can at most ask their play store colleagues to look it up and to contact the app owner. It is this way to avoid getting in a situation where being friends with a DA is an huge advantage. Their job is to collect dev feedback, as well as evangelizing good practices. And granted, both teams could do a better job at pinpointing the issues (and devs might also try harder to follow the rules .. fwiw play store bans threads have just been banned from r/androiddev because devs had a tendency to forget to talk about the legitimate reason why they got kicked out)
- kinlan 6y ago
  As the lead of that Devrel team, this is pretty much spot on. The process for these things is out of our hands (prevents abuse etc). There is a lot of things we can improve about the Chrome Web Store processes, not to mention a lot of other areas across Chrome.
  - archon810 6y ago
    And yet this single DA is the one who's able to request an appeal with undoubtedly more weight than the developer. https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261325118774493190 https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261325118774493190
woofie11 6y ago
And he says with current events, meaning a massive number of recently-laid-off-developers Google could have cheap, things will continue to move slowly.

Guzba 6y ago

This was low-key shocking to learn. What if this all happened while he was on vacation?

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robk 6y ago

Or the pm whoever that is now

on_and_off 6y ago

If it works the same way as the play store does, the DA has little to do with that. A play store advocate can not look up why your app got rejected, they can at most ask their play store colleagues to look it up and to contact the app owner. It is this way to avoid getting in a situation where being friends with a DA is an huge advantage. Their job is to collect dev feedback, as well as evangelizing good practices. And granted, both teams could do a better job at pinpointing the issues (and devs might also try harder to follow the rules .. fwiw play store bans threads have just been banned from r/androiddev because devs had a tendency to forget to talk about the legitimate reason why they got kicked out)

kinlan 6y ago
As the lead of that Devrel team, this is pretty much spot on. The process for these things is out of our hands (prevents abuse etc). There is a lot of things we can improve about the Chrome Web Store processes, not to mention a lot of other areas across Chrome.
- archon810 6y ago
  And yet this single DA is the one who's able to request an appeal with undoubtedly more weight than the developer. https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261325118774493190 https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1261325118774493190

woofie11 6y ago

And he says with current events, meaning a massive number of recently-laid-off-developers Google could have cheap, things will continue to move slowly.