<story><title>Let&apos;s guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension</title><url>https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires-in-14-days-or-they-kill-our-extension/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>The rule still applies: if you build your business on someone else&amp;#x27;s property, don&amp;#x27;t act surprised when they they casually destroy you.&lt;p&gt;It has happened again and again and again. Building for FB or Google is you making yourself their serf, and you will be allowed to exist at their whim.</text></item><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>For people focusing their comments on this particular extension + the permissions it asks for, please take a quick look at the numerous recent posts in the official forum for Chrome extension developers to see it&amp;#x27;s not an isolated issue:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;chromium.org&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!forum&amp;#x2F;chromium-extensions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;chromium.org&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!forum&amp;#x2F;chrom...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a systematic issue that isn&amp;#x27;t specific to anything Pushbullet is doing and it&amp;#x27;s been like this before the pandemic:&lt;p&gt;- Reviews can take up to 3 weeks. This in alone would be  crazy enough if you have an urgent bug to fix.&lt;p&gt;- Rejection emails are vague and don&amp;#x27;t tell you what to fix.&lt;p&gt;- After you guess at what to fix, you&amp;#x27;ve then got to join the up to 3 weeks review queue again.&lt;p&gt;- If you try too many times, your extension gets pulled.&lt;p&gt;- On top of this, they&amp;#x27;ve recently disabled new Chrome Web Store paid items, and user reviews.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone from Google escalate this and help extension developers? I can&amp;#x27;t speak for everyone but there&amp;#x27;s lots of complaints in the forum and little action beyond &amp;quot;we hear you and are looking to improve things&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chc</author><text>This isn&amp;#x27;t very actionable advice, though, since there is basically no such thing as a software product that isn&amp;#x27;t built on somebody else&amp;#x27;s property.&lt;p&gt;You might think, &amp;quot;Ah-ha, web apps!&amp;quot; But no, Google can still casually destroy you there. Or you might think, &amp;quot;Ah-ha, desktop apps!&amp;quot; But the OS vendor can casually destroy you there.</text></comment>
<story><title>Let&apos;s guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension</title><url>https://blog.pushbullet.com/2020/05/13/lets-guess-what-google-requires-in-14-days-or-they-kill-our-extension/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>_jal</author><text>The rule still applies: if you build your business on someone else&amp;#x27;s property, don&amp;#x27;t act surprised when they they casually destroy you.&lt;p&gt;It has happened again and again and again. Building for FB or Google is you making yourself their serf, and you will be allowed to exist at their whim.</text></item><item><author>seanwilson</author><text>For people focusing their comments on this particular extension + the permissions it asks for, please take a quick look at the numerous recent posts in the official forum for Chrome extension developers to see it&amp;#x27;s not an isolated issue:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;chromium.org&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!forum&amp;#x2F;chromium-extensions&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;groups.google.com&amp;#x2F;a&amp;#x2F;chromium.org&amp;#x2F;forum&amp;#x2F;#!forum&amp;#x2F;chrom...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s a systematic issue that isn&amp;#x27;t specific to anything Pushbullet is doing and it&amp;#x27;s been like this before the pandemic:&lt;p&gt;- Reviews can take up to 3 weeks. This in alone would be  crazy enough if you have an urgent bug to fix.&lt;p&gt;- Rejection emails are vague and don&amp;#x27;t tell you what to fix.&lt;p&gt;- After you guess at what to fix, you&amp;#x27;ve then got to join the up to 3 weeks review queue again.&lt;p&gt;- If you try too many times, your extension gets pulled.&lt;p&gt;- On top of this, they&amp;#x27;ve recently disabled new Chrome Web Store paid items, and user reviews.&lt;p&gt;Can anyone from Google escalate this and help extension developers? I can&amp;#x27;t speak for everyone but there&amp;#x27;s lots of complaints in the forum and little action beyond &amp;quot;we hear you and are looking to improve things&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>moron4hire</author><text>What business short of The Principality of Sealand&amp;#x27;s data warehousing is &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; &amp;quot;built on someone else&amp;#x27;s property&amp;quot;? Even a brick-and-mortar business needs to appease the taxman.</text></comment>