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Here is some criticism: 1. Your extension overpromises to users its abilities. You are responsible for that, not the users. You make no comment in your extensi
by Lewisham 15y ago
Here is some criticism:
1. Your extension overpromises to users its abilities. You are responsible for that, not the users. You make no comment in your extension's description that it relies on undocumented, unsupported DOM manipulation.
2. The "fundamental question" has been answered many times over: website owners are (rightfully) ambivalent to such extensions. If you want one, great, but don't complain to us when it breaks. This is exactly what Mohamed is doing.
3. Even a million users is insignificant to G+, so it is fallacious to say that you or Mohamed "helped" G+. You optimized it for a certain subset of users.
It's decently obnoxious and entitled to think that Google should be beholden to people doing things without any contract, or even any offer, of support. This is pretty much the same rabble-rabble-rabble that appeared when Kevin Rose shut down Oink: "I used your service, you owe me." Except it's "I wrote an extension, you owe me." Google doesn't owe you anything, and it certainly doesn't owe unsupported extensions knowledge that would otherwise be under NDA.