<story><title>Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why</title><url>https://blog.lipsurf.com/part-ii-after-3-years-of-work-chrome-killed-my-extension-and-wont-tell-me-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>gwd</author><text>What people seem to be missing is that this isn&amp;#x27;t a complaint -- it&amp;#x27;s a call to form effectively a union:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Therefore, we are starting a group today for Chrome Extension developers to work together in check with CWS. It&amp;#x27;s not a technical support channel, nor a platform to get attention when CWS is unresponsive. It&amp;#x27;s a place for Chrome Extension developers to rally together and discuss improving the foundation we stand on (it also won&amp;#x27;t be hosted nor managed by Google).&lt;p&gt;United, we can have a stronger, common voice to:&lt;p&gt;Pressure Google Chrome to allow for 3rd party extension stores.
This would break down the walled garden of extensions, give extension developers a leveler playing field, and lower the risk of getting wiped out on CWS&amp;#x27;s whim.&lt;p&gt;2. Pressure CWS to be more fair and communicative with extension publishers.&lt;p&gt;Canned emails about rejections with only general policy information are “lose-lose” for publishers and CWS alike. Both parties waste time because of all the guesswork involved currently — especially when CWS makes a mistake.&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Chrome killed my extension and won’t tell me why</title><url>https://blog.lipsurf.com/part-ii-after-3-years-of-work-chrome-killed-my-extension-and-wont-tell-me-why/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crazygringo</author><text>It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter if you&amp;#x27;re dealing with a store run by Apple or Google (or presumably anyone else): the stories are all the same.&lt;p&gt;Presumably because to make the economics work, review and approval are done by poorly trained contractors who don&amp;#x27;t have time to do a proper job and need to meet quotas. And with anything security related, there&amp;#x27;s an inherent bias toward not giving information on the &lt;i&gt;exact&lt;/i&gt; violations because this can be used to get around the &amp;quot;spirit&amp;quot; of the law while sticking to its &amp;quot;letter&amp;quot; (very true for spam, questionable for app stores).&lt;p&gt;Serious question: is there any better model though? In the non-virtual world, similar standards for the public good are achieved through things like FDA regulations, health inspections, building codes and permits, etc.&lt;p&gt;Since it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem like there&amp;#x27;s any kind of elegant free-market or crowd-sourced solution here, what should the standards be for regulating apps and extensions? What kind of &amp;quot;due process&amp;quot; ought there be, or appeal, or whatever? Is there going to come a point when app stores get regulated by a democratically legislated government agency?</text></comment>