How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users
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HN comment orderIt seems recently like anything inbound to Google goes into /dev/null! A number of us have been trying to get a response regarding Google Apps accounts with Play Music, and we're paying customers. There's no response to the forum https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/?utm_medium=email&u... nor when I put it on Twitter and when a load of us tried direct feedback via the app, that still hasn't got any response. Clearly their model needs to rely on limited user support and that's okay, provided there's…
Ran a online retail business for 12 years. One day, Adwords account suspended. Some generic 'voilation' email. No way to resolve, no person to speak to, no comment on the issue. Tried to resolve for months. Fired 15 staff, gave up. Basically the internet = Google when you run online retail.
Huge discussion from two days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12442048
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- Total points
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- 369
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-09-07 | How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ usersFirst breakout · Best thread | andygambles | 330 | 244 |
| 2016-09-09 | How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension featuring 24k+ users | Halienja | 9 | 1 |
| 2020-10-22 | How Google obliterated my 4 year old Chrome extension with 24k+ users (2016)Latest 20+ point return | Fiveplus | 142 | 124 |