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I’m sorry that you had that experience. Maybe enough up votes will get Google’s attention.

toomuchtodo 6y ago
There’s only one developer advocate on the Chrome extension team; hopefully they see this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198629
- bjornstar 6y ago
  Instead of coming on here and addressing the issue, he tweeted this instead: Thanks for the tag. Looks like the author's core issue is (understandably) with the construction of the system itself. I'm not sure what I can do here other than listen and reiterate that we are trying to work to address these issues. - https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1264331488029376513 https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1264331488029376513 A month ago he said: For context, we're currently planning to create a team that will respond to escalations with more meaningful information about a rejection. - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-extensions/o3I5pFH5z_g/FnvY0pI3AwAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte... But the situation only appears to be getting worse and no one at Google appears to care enough to do anything about it. I have an extension that is once again in rejection form mail purgatory and it makes me want to take my extensions off of the Google Chrome Web Store as well.
metalliqaz 6y ago
google dgaf There are only a handful of extensions that are deal breakers (the lack of which would send users to other browsers). uBlock Origin, for example. All the others can fuck right off.
- jtbayly 6y ago
  lol. If you think uBlock Origin going away will make people switch browsers, I think you've got another think coming. We will soon see... 1. When (not "if") Google kills UBO 2. How Chrome's market share doesn't drop
  - michaelmrose 6y ago
    Google have already given notice that they are killing uBlock Origin. Manifest v3 will eliminate the ability to have your own adblocker. In its place will be the ability for an extensions to provide an interface to a built in functionality that is deliberately gimped. Adblock addons will be drastically limited in functionality, must bundle the block list with the addon, can't update the list outside of updating the addon, are limited to a fraction of the size of existing block lists. This will end the arms race in favor of ads vs blockers by ensuring that ad blockers can't win while pretending its not ending adblocking.
    - metalliqaz 6y ago
      As a Firefox user I can only laugh at this.
shklnrj 6y ago
I finally stopped using chrome and thanks to Brave, I can use almost all the extensions that I still am used to, since all of them are compatible with Brave.
- bdcravens 6y ago
  Brave is based on Chromium
  - luckylion 6y ago
    But it's not chrome, hence not controlled by Google, and not bound by their policies regarding what extensions you may or may not install.
    - SanchoPanda 6y ago
      I think the parents comment's argument is that since it's based on chromium it also can eventually be forced to acquiesce, so any chromium-based browser is just a stop gap solution.
      - ensignavenger 6y ago
        Chromium is Open Source, Google can t force Brave or MS or anyone else to do anything they don't want to. Google can make their life difficult, leading to a fork, but they can't force anything beyond that. With all that said- I still prefer Firefox and think it is the best choice right now for the Web.
        SanchoPanda 6y ago
        The difference in scale of effort and money/time of being downstream vs a fork makes it at least possible that they would do no such thing. I personally think it would be extremely unlikely they would fork it.
    - xkapastel 6y ago
michaelmrose 6y ago
Maybe with enough exposure it will get people to move away from digital sharecropping where anyone even can accidentally take away your livelihood.

There’s only one developer advocate on the Chrome extension team; hopefully they see this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198629 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198629

bjornstar 6y ago
Instead of coming on here and addressing the issue, he tweeted this instead: Thanks for the tag. Looks like the author's core issue is (understandably) with the construction of the system itself. I'm not sure what I can do here other than listen and reiterate that we are trying to work to address these issues. - https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1264331488029376513 https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1264331488029376513 A month ago he said: For context, we're currently planning to create a team that will respond to escalations with more meaningful information about a rejection. - https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-extensions/o3I5pFH5z_g/FnvY0pI3AwAJ https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte... But the situation only appears to be getting worse and no one at Google appears to care enough to do anything about it. I have an extension that is once again in rejection form mail purgatory and it makes me want to take my extensions off of the Google Chrome Web Store as well.

metalliqaz 6y ago

google dgaf There are only a handful of extensions that are deal breakers (the lack of which would send users to other browsers). uBlock Origin, for example. All the others can fuck right off.

jtbayly 6y ago
lol. If you think uBlock Origin going away will make people switch browsers, I think you've got another think coming. We will soon see... 1. When (not "if") Google kills UBO 2. How Chrome's market share doesn't drop
- michaelmrose 6y ago
  Google have already given notice that they are killing uBlock Origin. Manifest v3 will eliminate the ability to have your own adblocker. In its place will be the ability for an extensions to provide an interface to a built in functionality that is deliberately gimped. Adblock addons will be drastically limited in functionality, must bundle the block list with the addon, can't update the list outside of updating the addon, are limited to a fraction of the size of existing block lists. This will end the arms race in favor of ads vs blockers by ensuring that ad blockers can't win while pretending its not ending adblocking.
  - metalliqaz 6y ago
    As a Firefox user I can only laugh at this.

shklnrj 6y ago

I finally stopped using chrome and thanks to Brave, I can use almost all the extensions that I still am used to, since all of them are compatible with Brave.

bdcravens 6y ago
Brave is based on Chromium
- luckylion 6y ago
  But it's not chrome, hence not controlled by Google, and not bound by their policies regarding what extensions you may or may not install.
  - SanchoPanda 6y ago
    I think the parents comment's argument is that since it's based on chromium it also can eventually be forced to acquiesce, so any chromium-based browser is just a stop gap solution.
    - ensignavenger 6y ago
      Chromium is Open Source, Google can t force Brave or MS or anyone else to do anything they don't want to. Google can make their life difficult, leading to a fork, but they can't force anything beyond that. With all that said- I still prefer Firefox and think it is the best choice right now for the Web.
      - SanchoPanda 6y ago
        The difference in scale of effort and money/time of being downstream vs a fork makes it at least possible that they would do no such thing. I personally think it would be extremely unlikely they would fork it.
  - xkapastel 6y ago

michaelmrose 6y ago

Maybe with enough exposure it will get people to move away from digital sharecropping where anyone even can accidentally take away your livelihood.