Site keeps removing really good extensions for no specific reason or finding some stupid excuses. They don't care it's used by millions with 5 stars. E.g. I was using Marvellous Suspender, Duplicate Tabs Closer
or Linkclump and many more, they keep removing it, so somebody else had to re-upload it again, so it's known by different name with the exact functionality. It's very annoying. I suspect they do is to remove the competition, so once they add some feature to Chrome, which they didn't care to add in the first place for many years (like making tabs inactive or adding vertical list and search), and suspiciously similar extensions got banned and remotely removed from all Chrome instances. Once they did mistake, removed very popular extension used by millions due to some suspicious/obfuscated code, then they did mistake, restored it as at the end it was harmless, but the damage was done. They think it's ok, but it's not, all pointless removals damages the site experience. All they say it's 'no longer available because it doesn't follow best practices', without explaining the actual reasons, just generic one. It's very annoying, especially with multiple profiles without sign-in, it's only wasting your time and patience. Why not provide open-source management (the one which are and there are many, like many other websites do, or introduce feature to take over some abandoned apps by community or something similar), so everyone can contribute to whatever issues they invent next. I give 2 stars, because Firefox extension store is even worse, full of scams. Chrome Web Store is like ghostland, nothing can survive for a long period, only large projects can survive which exist for their own benefits (money), not to benefit users. It's still useful, only because there is no alternative (apart of installing extensions directly from website), because all alternative sites providing extensions were destroyed by them as well.
By kenorb
don't get it
I'm so sorry for the people who are but don't want to be nerds. i want to delete it but i cant
By Lewis M.
I trust Chomewebstore to pre-screen…
I trust Chomewebstore to pre-screen applications and extensions for malware and stability.
