Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill our extension

Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by sdrinf on Thursday May 14, 2020 @07:56AM (#23178398)

Except chrome isn't really a "property app" so much as a "proprietary OS"; it's the platform in which ~70% of desktop users spend >10 hours a day. This is different from eg Facebook, in that FB's valueprop is being "full stack" (content + controls + ads); while Chrome's design is open-ended -running other people's websites, with other people's extensions.

The other side of the issue is tough, though: Chrome extensions are regularly purchased & have ads embedded into them ( https://superuser.com/questions/1551266/how-to-track-down-wh... ), so Google's chrome extension team (couple of ~hundred person?) is essentially held accountable by ~1 billion users to the behavior of ~10s of thousands of extensions.

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Re:Let's guess what Google requires in 14 days or they kill ... by fouric on Thursday May 14, 2020 @03:37PM (#23184311)

Google's 2014 net income was $14B. Chrome is one of the most valuable properties that Google owns, as it allows them to control a large fraction of advertising on the desktop, and advertising is their core business. They can afford to hire thousands more developers to vet Chrome extensions, yet they don't - implying that at least the upper levels of the Google command hierarchy don't consider this to be a problem or don't care about fixing it.

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