I was in a similar situation with Google. I have a Chrome extension with 10,000+ users. At one point Google flagged my extension as malware and automatically u

I was in a similar situation with Google. I have a Chrome extension with 10,000+ users. At one point Google flagged my extension as malware and automatically uninstalled from all of my (paid!) users. Of course, they didn't tell me why. Nothing had changed in my extension in _years_. What could it possibly have been? This happened right after some well known extensions got busted on the webstore after being sold to shady people and the webstore got bad press for it. Google came out and said they were improving their security measures. I assumed Google was doing some kind of automated scanning and with that in mind I took a wild guess... I wrote my own JavaScript minifier/obfuscation build tool and figured it was probably triggering the automated system (likely due to compressed strings). I stopped using my build tool and compiled the extension with no minification or compression at all. However, I couldn't upload it (me being banned). I created a second account, paid the developer fee and uploaded under a different category and I was... approved. It's still up there today.