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Re:Chrome Banned “YouTube Rabbit Hole” Extension by EdwardDiego on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:25AM (#29976141)
The above link is a 404, the issue linked by 8organicbits below/(above?) doesn't mention _why_ it was removed.

But the commits made yesterday look like it was because its icon looked a tad too much like YouTube's with the red background.

https://github.com/anthonyftwang/youtube-rabbit-hole/commit/...

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Re:Chrome Banned “YouTube Rabbit Hole” Extension by echelon on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:30AM (#29976176)
So Google (the browser) stepped in to protect Google (the owner of YouTube). And without notice or reason.

These sorts of cross-org actions are going to be fodder for an antitrust case.

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Re:Chrome Banned “YouTube Rabbit Hole” Extension by nulld3v on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @02:41AM (#29976257)
I don't know if I would call it that. I had a Skype extension that used the Skype logo in its icon and it got removed for the same reason.
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