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> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google. Cool Add-On
by _def 3y ago
> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee
Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google.
Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!
- SushiHippie 3y agoWell TIL https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/ https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/register/ It's $5, but still...
- londons_explore 3y agoI think it pays for the 5 minutes of someones time to glance over the extension and check it doesn't obviously violate the store rules. Also, turns out $5 deters most spammers.
- londons_explore 3y agoIf I spend a few hours of my time developing a Chrome extension for free, and publish it on the store, then users get to use it for free, but if Google wants $5 then suddenly I am investing both time and money into something where I will never get any reward. Somehow, donating time for the benefit of others, or money for the benefit of others is fine, but as soon as I'm donating both, it feels like it's not worth it. Yes, this is an irrational view.
- AndrewKemendo 3y agoJust create a base system for yourself You can convert easily between hours and money so that you can resolve the problem of both by conversion of one to the preferred So assuming you make $100/hr: “I can’t believe I gave 10 hours to this and then they want to charge me an additional $5 on top!?” Turns into “I just gave 10 hours to this, and they want me to give 3 more minutes of my time to publish it?”
- kelthan 3y agoThis is mostly to deter malicious behavior because it makes it unprofitable for bad actors to publish malware by spamming the store with dumb apps that are only life-support systems for their little packages of joy. It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us. But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/difficult/time-consuming for the rest of us.
- luxuryballs 3y agoah yes the “this is why we can’t have nice things” fee
- numpad0 3y agoInteresting $5 one time is high enough bar for Chrome extensions store, but $5/mo. is not for bots on certain blue social media. Not disputing facts, just... weird.
- xyzzy_plugh 3y agoApples and oranges. Google bills you directly, Twitter/X bills indirectly through platforms who do not provide sufficient transparency to prevent repeat abuse. Last I checked Twitter/X had no way to prevent you from signing up again after a ban if you paid via Apple Pay, as an example.
- tripleo1 3y agoah yes, developer mode??
- SpaghettiCthulu 3y agoIs that new? I definitely didn't have to pay when I published an extension around november last year.