New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?
Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension? 2 by modzu | 0 comments on Hacker News. I submit an extension (an adblocker) to Google Chrome's web store. Google keeps rejecting it for dubious reasons. The first rejection was claim it was "spam". When I appealed, the review came back that it contained "additional functionality" because it uses "modifies network traffic". Well of course it does! When I asked the reviewer how I could achieve the stated functionality of blocking ads without the use of "declarativeNetRequest" I simply received the same canned response. I submit a totally new update that simplified the code and included comments, and references to other open source projecs that use the exact same mechanisms. Again it was rejected. On this appeal I asked if it could be escalated to a senior reviewer who could possibly reply with more context. Same canned response and rejection. I can't help but think Google has some int...