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No problem as long as it's available elsewhere, is it? As to popularity - this mere news will probably bring more new users than Google store did in quite a per

No problem as long as it's available elsewhere, is it? As to popularity - this mere news will probably bring more new users than Google store did in quite a period of time.

Mordisquitos 6y ago
I do not understand what you mean with "No problem as long as it's available elsewhere". Are you implying that we should just treat Google's decisions as inscrutable facts of nature that we must accept with resignation, and just be glad that the extension is still available somewhere?
- qwerty456127 6y ago
  Perhaps. Because Google is not Apple and does not prevent us from side-loading anything, still gives us a great browser and a great OS for free. In fact we, the advanced privacy-concerned users, are not interested in such extensions being on the store front and becoming too popular. Let Google use simple methods to track people who don't care about being tracked (many people who I tell about tracking really don't care, they say I'm a paranoid weirdo complicating things instead of just using them the way everybody does) enough to find a workaround. When AdBlock was only used by a bunch of superusers nobody cared to counter it, everybody was happy.
  - int_19h 6y ago
    If "everybody was happy", its userbase wouldn't have grown.
franga2000 6y ago
Discoverability, trust, security, plus what the sibling comment says.
- qwerty456127 6y ago
  Google store contains a lot of bullshit and spyware extensions. The facts an extension is there doesn't add a dime to trust. Discoverability also isn't a thing such extensions should seek. As soon as too many people discover it Google and others will invent a smarter way to spy.
  - franga2000 6y ago
    Flow 1: user wants extension, clicks the browser addons button, searches for it, clicks install. Updates are automatic. Flow 2: user wants extension, searches in Google, finds a third-party website, clicks download, downloads file, runs file, gets warning that the exension is untrusted, clicks install anyway. Repeat for every update. Still don't think the average person wouldn't truat Flow 2 less? Or, to look at it from the other side: wouldn't the fact it was removed by Google make people suspicious of the addon? What was it doing that was so bad that even a garbage pile like the Chrome Store dropped it.
throwaway2048 6y ago
Google makes it extremely difficult and annoying to run non-store addons in chrome.

No problem as long as it's available elsewhere, is it? As to popularity - this mere news will probably bring more new users than Google store did in quite a period of time.

Mordisquitos 6y ago

I do not understand what you mean with "No problem as long as it's available elsewhere". Are you implying that we should just treat Google's decisions as inscrutable facts of nature that we must accept with resignation, and just be glad that the extension is still available somewhere?

qwerty456127 6y ago
Perhaps. Because Google is not Apple and does not prevent us from side-loading anything, still gives us a great browser and a great OS for free. In fact we, the advanced privacy-concerned users, are not interested in such extensions being on the store front and becoming too popular. Let Google use simple methods to track people who don't care about being tracked (many people who I tell about tracking really don't care, they say I'm a paranoid weirdo complicating things instead of just using them the way everybody does) enough to find a workaround. When AdBlock was only used by a bunch of superusers nobody cared to counter it, everybody was happy.
- int_19h 6y ago
  If "everybody was happy", its userbase wouldn't have grown.

franga2000 6y ago

Discoverability, trust, security, plus what the sibling comment says.

qwerty456127 6y ago
Google store contains a lot of bullshit and spyware extensions. The facts an extension is there doesn't add a dime to trust. Discoverability also isn't a thing such extensions should seek. As soon as too many people discover it Google and others will invent a smarter way to spy.
- franga2000 6y ago
  Flow 1: user wants extension, clicks the browser addons button, searches for it, clicks install. Updates are automatic. Flow 2: user wants extension, searches in Google, finds a third-party website, clicks download, downloads file, runs file, gets warning that the exension is untrusted, clicks install anyway. Repeat for every update. Still don't think the average person wouldn't truat Flow 2 less? Or, to look at it from the other side: wouldn't the fact it was removed by Google make people suspicious of the addon? What was it doing that was so bad that even a garbage pile like the Chrome Store dropped it.

throwaway2048 6y ago

Google makes it extremely difficult and annoying to run non-store addons in chrome.