Interesting that this happens soon after Google restricted extensions to developer mode, isn't it? Back then I said the "security reason" is definitely BS, because they already took a "strong enough" measure to only allow extensions to be installed with drag and drop into the Extensions page.
Plus, when you have the company that lives by data, not show you the data that made them make this move, you know something is up. I asked then, and I actually asked when they moved to drag and drop, too: show me the data that proves this is so necessary!
Even before any of this, Chrome was far better than IE and even Firefox at staving off bad extensions. So to me both of those moves seemed unnecessary, and most likely with another "agenda" behind. Now we begin to see that that agenda could be.
I've also connected stuff like this with MPAA taking board membership at W3C. Expect stuff that's much worse than this, and the MPAA-influenced W3C to start keeping features away from browsers that MPAA freaks out about, while Google will increasingly start to ban various extensions from the store for various "ToS reasons".
And people still think W3C's DRM extension won't be used to close down the Internet? It took Netflix weeks to take advantage of Google's recent move. Watch what happens when DRM can be enabled in the browser by anyone, just as easily, Then we'll see if the "convenience" of not playing Netflix through a plugin was worth it.
Plus, when you have the company that lives by data, not show you the data that made them make this move, you know something is up. I asked then, and I actually asked when they moved to drag and drop, too: show me the data that proves this is so necessary!
Even before any of this, Chrome was far better than IE and even Firefox at staving off bad extensions. So to me both of those moves seemed unnecessary, and most likely with another "agenda" behind. Now we begin to see that that agenda could be.
I've also connected stuff like this with MPAA taking board membership at W3C. Expect stuff that's much worse than this, and the MPAA-influenced W3C to start keeping features away from browsers that MPAA freaks out about, while Google will increasingly start to ban various extensions from the store for various "ToS reasons".
And people still think W3C's DRM extension won't be used to close down the Internet? It took Netflix weeks to take advantage of Google's recent move. Watch what happens when DRM can be enabled in the browser by anyone, just as easily, Then we'll see if the "convenience" of not playing Netflix through a plugin was worth it.