Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension developer

Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by eviks on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:00PM (#37069013)

The solution of for the app store owner to develop a better monetization scheme that would reward developers

+ track change of ownership

+ some distributed review system

+ better sandboxing

+ no forced autoupdates

+ A few other things

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Re:Many temptations of an open-source Chrome extension devel... by Firmwarrior on Wednesday August 09, 2023 @06:28PM (#37069243)

Man, that would be nice

World of Warcraft has an in game ui addon modding system built in that ends up suffering from these same problems. It’s so damn frustrating to see addon developers sell out their fans to a super shady spyware company for like $3/month (and the alternative is $0)

I could understand betraying people for a life-changing amount of money, but £20 is 5-20 minutes’ worth of pay for a competent SWE…

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