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Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by revelation on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:30AM (#12442781)
You use "Facebook" in the name of your extension to lure users into installing it. Google tells you you can't use the trademark. You again use the trademark. Google gives up on your spammy ways.

They seem to have done everything right here.

Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by Sylos on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @01:04PM (#12445085)
Apple approved "Cleaner - for Facebook" when the author had gotten a complaint there. No reason to believe that Google wouldn't approve of it. The two companies are after all still under the same laws.

Also, are you seriously telling me that making a different suggestion once, which still contains the trademark is spammy? Any reasonable customer service would have just responded that this still isn't alright either, maybe even suggested a few names, which would not infringe the trademark.

Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by zenopopovici on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:41AM (#12443263)
4 years later... it's a cleaner that works only of Facebook. It's not a lure or anything. Google reviewed it and approved it 4 years ago. The extension is free. There is no advertising. I don't make any profit.

(I'm the author of the post).

Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by njloof on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:42AM (#12442871)
Register it as "for FB" -- users will know what it stands for.
Re:How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension fea... by nkozyra on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:48AM (#12442908)
If you read the original email, the complaint also lists "FB."