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I’m sorry that you had that experience. Maybe enough up votes will get Google’s attention.

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There’s only one developer advocate on the Chrome extension team; hopefully they see this!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23198629

Instead of coming on here and addressing the issue, he tweeted this instead:

Thanks for the tag. Looks like the author's core issue is (understandably) with the construction of the system itself. I'm not sure what I can do here other than listen and reiterate that we are trying to work to address these issues.

- https://twitter.com/DotProto/status/1264331488029376513

A month ago he said:

For context, we're currently planning to create a team that will respond to escalations with more meaningful information about a rejection.

- https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/d/msg/chromium-exte...

But the situation only appears to be getting worse and no one at Google appears to care enough to do anything about it.

I have an extension that is once again in rejection form mail purgatory and it makes me want to take my extensions off of the Google Chrome Web Store as well.

google dgaf

There are only a handful of extensions that are deal breakers (the lack of which would send users to other browsers). uBlock Origin, for example. All the others can fuck right off.

lol. If you think uBlock Origin going away will make people switch browsers, I think you've got another think coming. We will soon see...

1. When (not "if") Google kills UBO 2. How Chrome's market share doesn't drop

Google have already given notice that they are killing uBlock Origin. Manifest v3 will eliminate the ability to have your own adblocker. In its place will be the ability for an extensions to provide an interface to a built in functionality that is deliberately gimped.

Adblock addons will be drastically limited in functionality, must bundle the block list with the addon, can't update the list outside of updating the addon, are limited to a fraction of the size of existing block lists.

This will end the arms race in favor of ads vs blockers by ensuring that ad blockers can't win while pretending its not ending adblocking.

As a Firefox user I can only laugh at this.

I finally stopped using chrome and thanks to Brave, I can use almost all the extensions that I still am used to, since all of them are compatible with Brave.

Brave is based on Chromium

But it's not chrome, hence not controlled by Google, and not bound by their policies regarding what extensions you may or may not install.

In theory. In practice, Manifest v3 (the changes to adblockers) will be implemented at the C++ level, meaning you'd need to fork Chromium in order to avoid it. I would be surprised if Brave even had the engineering power to do that. Microsoft perhaps, but I doubt they actually will.

I think the parents comment's argument is that since it's based on chromium it also can eventually be forced to acquiesce, so any chromium-based browser is just a stop gap solution.

Chromium is Open Source, Google can t force Brave or MS or anyone else to do anything they don't want to. Google can make their life difficult, leading to a fork, but they can't force anything beyond that.

With all that said- I still prefer Firefox and think it is the best choice right now for the Web.

The difference in scale of effort and money/time of being downstream vs a fork makes it at least possible that they would do no such thing. I personally think it would be extremely unlikely they would fork it.

Maybe with enough exposure it will get people to move away from digital sharecropping where anyone even can accidentally take away your livelihood.

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