> Chrome Web Store has a publishing fee
Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google.
Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!
Excuse me, what?! Everytime I think I'm unhappy with Mozilla, I find way more disturbing things at Google.
Cool Add-On btw, I'll try it!
It's $5, but still...
Also, turns out $5 deters most spammers.
Somehow, donating time for the benefit of others, or money for the benefit of others is fine, but as soon as I'm donating both, it feels like it's not worth it.
Yes, this is an irrational view.
You can convert easily between hours and money so that you can resolve the problem of both by conversion of one to the preferred
So assuming you make $100/hr:
“I can’t believe I gave 10 hours to this and then they want to charge me an additional $5 on top!?”
Turns into
“I just gave 10 hours to this, and they want me to give 3 more minutes of my time to publish it?”
It's a high enough bar to trip up a lot of bad actors, but low enough that it's a simple annoyance for most of us.
But yeah, reason 4,590,234,761 why people who misbehave make things more expensive/difficult/time-consuming for the rest of us.
Last I checked Twitter/X had no way to prevent you from signing up again after a ban if you paid via Apple Pay, as an example.