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Watch out, when I ran into a similar situation with my extension, unedditreddit. Reddit, was able to convince google to simply remove the the extension from the
by babs474 13y ago
Watch out, when I ran into a similar situation with my extension, unedditreddit. Reddit, was able to convince google to simply remove the the extension from the webstore.
Chrome makes it really difficult to install a non app store extension, so your normal user will not do it.
On the other hand, google and facebook have a more competitive relationship so maybe there is less to worry about.
- seeingfurther 13y ago$4.00 a month to read edited comments is why they went after you.
- babs474 13y agoWhat makes you say that?
- ceol 13y agoYou used their trademarked brand name in a product and URL for that product. That's a huge mistake. Plus there's the whole issue with your app sidestepping reddit's "delete", "remove", "edit", and "private subreddit" functionality. Those things exist for very good reasons and are nothing like what Social Fixer did.
- babs474 13y agoYou might have a point about naming, I don't know. In my defense a bunch of reddit tools do the same thing: metareddit.com, uneddit.com, redditenhancementsuite.com But I'm really curious about what you said regarding sidestepping delete functionality. How do you view search engines indexing and caching of reddit and other sites? Does the Barbara Streisand effect apply? I think that the issue is way more nuanced than no "sidesteppping" allowed. One of my main motivations for creating unedditreddit was noticing that there was a lot of baloney moderation going on. Cabals of power users can censor quite a bit and it is completely opaque as to who deleted something and for what. I think it could damage the community in the same way digg vote rings used to.
- oneshotreply 13y agoDo something for the improvement of the human race instead. If you can't, please stop releasing idiotic extensions that bring individual human beings more suffering than benefit.
- angkec 13y agoHow do they suffer by reading reddit comments? Just curious.
- SquareWheel 13y agoUsers or moderators obviously deleted their post for a reason. Restoring that post goes against their wishes.
- Dylan16807 13y agoHow does it sidestep private subreddits?
- Tomdarkness 13y agoHow do you know Reddit forced Google to remove it? What was your correspondence from Google?
- babs474 13y agoReddit did not "force" google to remove it, but I know it was at least prompted by reddit. I know this from emails between myself and google.
- SquareWheel 13y agoThe admins asked you to remove unedditreddit years ago[1]. And for good reason. It was disrespectful to bring the tool back online after saying you'd disable it, especially when you started charging for it. [1] http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/etd52/lets_have_a_discussion_about_deleted_comments/c1as392 http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/etd52/lets_have_...
- babs474 13y ago1. It wasn't disrespectful. The previous version which you refer to directly interacted with reddit servers. I said I would no longer crawl reddit and I do not. 2. There is nothing wrong with charging for something you have built, but you can check out a free version of similar tool here http://uneddit.com/faq.php http://uneddit.com/faq.php it also does a good job of raising some points from my line of thinking.