Oh, so you are saying that it's fine with Chrome Web Store policies?
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Replying to @WPalant
What policy would you say it's violating? They declare everything they do, and users install their crappy software willingly. I imagine pro-antivirus people argue this is not crappy software, and users benefit from this (you and I are likely on the same page).
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For reference: I *knew* what I was looking for, yet it took me 30 minutes to find them "declaring" it. I'm pretty sure that the number of their users aware of this behavior is somewhere in the single digit numbers.
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Replying to @WPalant
We're on the same page here, but you would be equally unhappy if extensions were arbitrarily removed on a whim. I think the policies are pretty good - they have to cover a crazy array of use cases, but people push it as close to the limits as they can get away with
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Replying to @taviso
But they are being arbitrarily removed on a whim.
I've seen Google change rules and start disabling extensions without prior warning - when it was something they cared about. Privacy violations on the other hand were always a gray zone, most times people would get away with it.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @WPalant
That is not my perception, I think you must be interpreting mistakes as whims, until someone solves the halting problem humans have to be involved and mistakes will happen! I find the team takes defending the policies very seriously, disagree that it's a gray zone.
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Replying to @taviso
I can only see a small part of the picture of course. However, both my Chrome extensions were disabled in two separate incidents because Google decided to enforce new rules. At the same time, I've mostly given up on reporting malicious extensions in CWS.
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For example, https://palant.de/2018/04/18/the-ticking-time-bomb-fake-ad-blockers-in-chrome-web-store/ … - people were trying to get these removed for months. It wasn't until the story hit the news that these were gone.
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Or https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557258 … - Mozilla took down 90 extensions there. At the same time, Google didn't even remove the three that I reported, all of these are still active.
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Enforcing software policies like this is hard, people will cheat, lie, obfuscate and deny everything. Then there's close calls, where people deliberately tread very close to the line. All I can tell you is that I have seen no reason to believe any whims are involved.
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