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Even if that's how it ended up, I doubt that was the plan. I think a lot of Google products, especially those from 10+ years ago, start out built for people lik
by creato 6y ago
Even if that's how it ended up, I doubt that was the plan. I think a lot of Google products, especially those from 10+ years ago, start out built for people like themselves: highly tech literate software engineers. As long as that is true enough, extensions are great and useful, and the users are mostly skeptical/aware enough to avoid installing malware. Now the average chrome user is the same person that filled their IE browser window with banzai buddy toolbars.
- ohyeshedid 6y agoIt also doesn't help that dodgy folks started buying trusted extensions. One update of a trusted extension and you're just as bad off as installing a dodgy one in the first place.
- the_gipsy 6y agoIt never is the plan, I would say. Great products like chrome are made by people that are driven by the idea of making a great product, for the user. But after that is proven, given some time, the shareholders take over and priorities shift.
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