As of Monday, developers can no longer make brand-new paid extensions, according to Google– though thats cementing a policy that has actually already been in location because March. And that policy follows a short-lived suspension of publishing paid extensions in January after Google observed an uptick in fraudulent transactions that “objective [ed] to make use of users.”
Google is closing down paid Chrome extensions provided on the Chrome Web Shop, the business revealed today. That suggests that developers who are trying to monetize their extensions will need to do so with other payment-handling systems.
Google will slowly phase out other functionality over the coming months, and on February 1st, Google states that existing extensions can no longer charge clients using the Chrome Web Stores payments system. Heres the complete timeline:
These arent the only notable modifications to extensions that Google has made this year. The business rolled out a variety of policy updates in April meant to decrease spammy extensions, consisting of banning multiple extensions that do the very same thing, not permitting designers to control evaluations to try to improve positioning for their extension, and prohibiting extensions that abuse notices.
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