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Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: May 2018
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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Chrome Web Store takes down applications without warning

Reported by jktay...@gmail.com, May 30 2018

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/66.0.3359.181 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Make extension title more descriptive and accurate so that users can better find your extension.
2. Place relevant keywords in your description that users are looking for to help find your extension.
3. If you are trying to monetize your extension, obfuscate the business logic so others cannot easily steal your code.

What is the expected behavior?
Making our descriptions and titles more accurately describe our extensions to help users find them should be allowed.  Also, if google does not want us to obfuscate code, then they should provide a way to hide our business logic so that others cannot easily steal it.  Google payments is after all shaving a cut off the top of the app sales.  If our extension is at violation of any terms, we should be notified during the update process, not months later by checking the chrome store ourselves.  If an issue is discovered, then our apps or offending content should be rolled back to a previous version instead of getting the immediate death penalty without warning.

What went wrong?
Doing anything of these things will get your extension automatically taken down from the webstore without warning.  The only way to know your extension has been taken down is to check on it because the webstore still does not support any notifications of any kind.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 66.0.3359.181  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version:
 
Components: -Platform>DevTools
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
This is not a Chromium (open source browser) bug.

Comment 2 by jktay...@gmail.com, May 30 2018

Then why is this one being looked at?
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=37609

Comment 3 by jktay...@gmail.com, May 30 2018

I will make a new one for the webstore component then.

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