Google will roll out Chrome's new extension spec next week (opens in new tab)

(theverge.com)

17 pointsedsimpson1y ago8 comments

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From don't be evil to shakespearean villain cackling and howling at the moon, what a beautiful story!

I’ve developed a pavlovian response to Google announcements in which I’ll scramble to figure out what impending hostility google is forcing on me.

I must admit, I’m the weird one; I’ll unthinkingly sponsor OSS for $25/month but buck like a wild horse at the prospect of being forced to pay half that for a crumby youtube subscription.

toomuchtodo1y ago

That’s not weird. You’re willing to pay a premium for agency and control over your experience. Very rational.

cebert1y ago

This might be good news for Firefox for people who value having more control of what their browser does.

superkuh1y ago

Doing everything they can to diffuse and spread out the blow-back from their removal of the ability to have updates in javascript protection extensions.

stefan_1y ago

Boiling the frog for 3 years now. And then we get these insulting blog posts of clueless Developer Relations people claiming how amazing it is that they now support 5000 rules, a number surely meant to impress equally clueless people.

brokenmachine1y ago

Can you explain this more?

superkuh1y ago

Google has been announcing this and then delaying it for years. Each time there is less push back. It is intentional outrage fatigue.

Rather than actually caring or listening to the push back they're just repeatedly doing what people don't want until there's a small enough response to push through. Very similar to how SOPA-etc and the like are passed.

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mistercheph1y ago

From don't be evil to shakespearean villain cackling and howling at the moon, what a beautiful story!

nomilk1y ago

I’ve developed a pavlovian response to Google announcements in which I’ll scramble to figure out what impending hostility google is forcing on me.

I must admit, I’m the weird one; I’ll unthinkingly sponsor OSS for $25/month but buck like a wild horse at the prospect of being forced to pay half that for a crumby youtube subscription.

toomuchtodo1y ago

That’s not weird. You’re willing to pay a premium for agency and control over your experience. Very rational.

cebert1y ago

This might be good news for Firefox for people who value having more control of what their browser does.

superkuh1y ago

Doing everything they can to diffuse and spread out the blow-back from their removal of the ability to have updates in javascript protection extensions.

stefan_1y ago

brokenmachine1y ago

Can you explain this more?

superkuh1y ago

Google has been announcing this and then delaying it for years. Each time there is less push back. It is intentional outrage fatigue.

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