What permissions does our extension request?

It’s not clear what permissions Google wants us to remove (or how many, or anything like that) but lets make a good-faith effort to reduce the permissions our extension requests! That’s not good!īased on my interpretation of bullet points listed, I believe Google wants us to find ways to reduce the permissions our extension requests. We appear to violate the “Use of Permissions” section of the Chrome Web Store policy.

Don't attempt to 'future proof' your product by requesting a permission that might benefit services or features that have not yet been implemented.

If more than one permission could be used to implement a feature, you must request those with the least access to data or functionality.

Request access to the narrowest permissions necessary to implement your product’s features or services.

Your product violates the 'Use of Permissions' section of the policy, which requires that you: Your item did not comply with the following section of our Program Policies: What do we have to go on to guess the required changes to not get kicked off the Chrome Web Store?įortunately, Google has given us a hint of what changes we need to make. This is a big deal for us.ġ4 days and counting. It being removed may very well be the end of Pushbullet altogether. The Pushbullet extension is our most-installed app for desktop. In addition to the large number of users and excellent rating, our extension is also frequently featured by Chrome Web Store team which we really appreciate! Here’s us in the Work From Home collection.Ĭonsidering all of the work we’ve done over the years to make an exceptional Chrome extension that this worthy of being featured by the Chrome Web Store team, it was shocking to read we are less than 14 days away from being removed from the Web Store. The Pushbullet Chrome extension has been on the Chrome Web store for over 6 years, currently has over 1,000,000 users, and has a 4.5 star average rating.

Here’s the full text of the email if you’d like to read it for yourself. Not good! The bigger problem? Google hasn’t told us what those required changes are. It appears our extension will be removed from the Chrome Web Store if we don’t make required changes within 14 days. We at Pushbullet have received some bad news from Google.

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