> we have a ten-person team, we'll get back to you within 5 years?
It is TOTALLY not OK to have a ten person team (and I have no way to know if they even have that).
Considering the fact that the browser platform is now a real service required by billions of people, they should be responsible to have enough staff to handle extensions properly.
Aside from the amount of money the Chrome extensions make them, the amount of influence it buys them, and the amount of damage it can do, it should be required of them to have a real team to handle it.
Imagine if the I ran a private airlines that provided service for 4 billion people around the world, and the entire team that inspects, approves, and monitors the pilots and co-pilots had ten people. Would you think that is acceptable, or would you expect multiple governments to intervene?
> Considering the fact that the browser platform is now a real service required by billions of people, they should be responsible to have enough staff to handle extensions properly.
Extentions don't have to exist at all. At least for a very long time, there were no extensions for Chrome on Android (not sure about now but that may still be the case).
I suspect google would love to just deprecate all extensions entirely, they're probably a massive headache for them (as this thread shows).
A lot of things Google used to do that attracted geeks like us are really a problematic thing when the average masses of people are using them. Google is learning that the hard way, and the process of fixing that pisses off us geeks.
Apple took a different path of locking things down more aggressively earlier, and a lot of geeks (myself included) hated them for it. Now, after we're seeing how the modern world is so incredibly tech illiterate and how security issues are affecting the world, I think Apple got this right and Google got it wrong, and Google knows it and is trying to fix it, which is pissing us off in the same way Apple used to piss us off (but we apparently got over it).
It is TOTALLY not OK to have a ten person team (and I have no way to know if they even have that).
Considering the fact that the browser platform is now a real service required by billions of people, they should be responsible to have enough staff to handle extensions properly.
Aside from the amount of money the Chrome extensions make them, the amount of influence it buys them, and the amount of damage it can do, it should be required of them to have a real team to handle it.
Imagine if the I ran a private airlines that provided service for 4 billion people around the world, and the entire team that inspects, approves, and monitors the pilots and co-pilots had ten people. Would you think that is acceptable, or would you expect multiple governments to intervene?