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My team recently built a Chrome extension and expected to be grilled on permissions. We sailed through despite requesting access to all sorts of things. Their v
by MattGaiser 5y ago
My team recently built a Chrome extension and expected to be grilled on permissions. We sailed through despite requesting access to all sorts of things. Their vetting seems strict from the outside, but does not seem like it after going through the process.
- remram 5y agoIt seems but it doesn't seem? Sorry I can't figure out the typo
- joshtynjala 5y agoI took his meaning as, the vetting seems strict before you submit, but it actually turns out to be much less strict after you submit.
- CamelCaseName 5y agoGoogle's vetting seems strict from the outside. However, now that GP has gone through the process, GP no longer believes it is strict.
- MattGaiser 5y agoClarified with an edit. What I mean is that they require you to write up all sorts of justifications for permissions and be very specific about use cases in the submission process, but they didn't have a single comment about any of it, despite our application requiring a lot of invasive permissions. They also approved it very rapidly. It is possible that we just did a really good job on the justifications, but I have never had a store submission come back with no required changes or clarifications outside of Google.
- gnicholas 5y agoIt's possible they are more focused on extensions with lots of users. My extensions with tens of thousands of users have been under increased scrutiny in the last year or two, and have had several false positive issues arise, which has been frustrating.