alt.hn

6/8/2026 at 5:04:52 PM

Ask HN: How to escalate a rejected Google extension?

by modzu

6/8/2026 at 8:01:02 PM

"Excuse me sir, would you mind carrying this extension that goes against your core business of selling ads?"

Publish it as a Firefox add-on instead.

by Rygian

6/8/2026 at 8:07:37 PM

Yeah, this exactly. Google goes out of their way to be as unfriendly to adblockers as possible in Chrome. I don't know why anyone is still even using Chrome or why you would want to support them (by value-adding to their browser) with your efforts.

by xingped

6/8/2026 at 8:33:26 PM

because it's still the fastest browser with the most intuitive UI, which is all the vast majority of people care about

by stronglikedan

6/8/2026 at 8:47:51 PM

Edge is better, with only downside is that MS keep pushing Bing on its users.

by ahriad

6/9/2026 at 12:08:35 AM

I can't think of literally anything meaningfully different about the Chrome UI from any other browser...

by xingped

6/8/2026 at 8:55:31 PM

> all the vast majority of people care about

apparently, as demonstrated by this post, they care about ad-blockers too..

by noncoml

6/10/2026 at 2:43:08 AM

Yup – I think that Chrome’s Manifest V3 has severely limited the capabilities of ad blockers like uBlock Origin as well. I switched to Librewolf a while ago.

by vunderba

6/8/2026 at 8:15:05 PM

> I can't help but think Google has some internal policy to give adblockers a runaround.

Ding ding ding. Stop using chrome!

by Boxxed

6/8/2026 at 9:31:11 PM

My $0.02: I suspect each time you submit, you're evaluated by someone different, and everyone has their own interpretation of the criteria.

When you submit, assume every time that you're going up against someone who's going to miss context from the prior submissions.

by gwbas1c

6/8/2026 at 10:11:49 PM

The only reason the google has invested into chromium is something along the lines of web manifest v3 so they can monopolize the way internet is consumed and monetized

Of course they are going to do this

by cantalopes

6/9/2026 at 8:06:32 AM

I submitted a website sitemap to Google's GSC, but it still couldn't be added.

by jsxyzb9

6/8/2026 at 8:37:31 PM

google is an ad company. mow different lawns

by sitzkrieg

6/8/2026 at 9:26:26 PM

I ship a small extension too, so this hits home.

One path I haven't seen mentioned: the official chromium-extensions Google Group. Googlers from the Chrome Extensions team actually reply there, and a clear public post with your item ID gets a human eye the appeal form never does.

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensio...

Good luck, genuinely.

by BestQ