I don't run chrome on my desktop and laptop for several reasons, but on my android smartphone, which includes Chrome as the default browser, I don't run it because of the licensing.
The Chrome license includes an Adobe license, due to their using an Adobe product as a component.
The Adobe license, while apparently intended as a no-reverse-engineering prohibition, amounts to a non-compete that would forever taint my ability to work on software similar to Adobe's.
So I haven't activated it. At the moment, having not gotten around to installing a replacement browser (and figuring out how to do so without use of the un-enabled Chrome browser)
Naturally, you install it through the play store. Or you download an APK onto your laptop, and sideload it using adb install.
And this is likely the reason Google is making this change. Google provided the tools for users to see what things extensions wanted access to, and users did not care. So now Google has to be more selective with their approval process.
The other big reason is the practice of selling legitimate extensions to "developers" who promptly pump it full of malware and push an update to all of the existing users.
It sounds like Google's changes will address these problems and I welcome them.
I don't run chrome on my desktop and laptop for several reasons, but on my android smartphone, which includes Chrome as the default browser, I don't run it because of the licensing.
The Chrome license includes an Adobe license, due to their using an Adobe product as a component.
The Adobe license, while apparently intended as a no-reverse-engineering prohibition, amounts to a non-compete that would forever taint my ability to work on software similar to Adobe's.
(Clicking "accept" on a cellphone can be expecte
So I haven't activated it. At the moment, having not gotten around to installing a replacement browser (and figuring out how to do so without use of the un-enabled Chrome browser)
Naturally, you install it through the play store. Or you download an APK onto your laptop, and sideload it using adb install.
I'm just curious if people get paid to manually post this stuff or if there is some program that is systematically posting these.
I guess the more people read a statement the less outlandish it seems and eventually just normal.
And this is likely the reason Google is making this change. Google provided the tools for users to see what things extensions wanted access to, and users did not care. So now Google has to be more selective with their approval process.
The other big reason is the practice of selling legitimate extensions to "developers" who promptly pump it full of malware and push an update to all of the existing users.
It sounds like Google's changes will address these problems and I welcome them.