Why was this removed from the Chrome Web Store?

ETCExtensions / Edit-This-Cookie

EditThisCookie is the famous Google Chrome/Chromium extension for editing cookies

http://www.editthiscookie.com

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Why was this removed from the Chrome Web Store? #370

Closed ylluminate closed 4 months ago

ylluminate commented 4 months ago

Anyone have any news on why this has been removed from the Chrome Web Store?

amit139313 commented 4 months ago

This extension is used to spread malware. The source code in chrome web store was different from what is present in github. It was also knows to inject ads, steal saved passwords and cookies etc.

https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-editthiscookie-chrome-extension/

fcapano commented 4 months ago

Hi @amit139313 , I'm the sole developer of EditThisCookie.

Thanks for bringing this up, I can vouch for the fact that that article is absolutely made up. I have tried to contact the website multiple times many years ago, and they haven't been helpful at all.

The extension is absolutely NOT malware. But don't take my word for it. It's all Javascript, CSS and HTML, and you can inspect the source code in your computer after installing it if you wish to do so. EditThisCookie has been trusted by millions of users, for over a decade.

@ylluminate to your point, unfortunately I have missed some notifications from Google mentioning how it violates some of their new rules, specifically as mentioned by Google:

Violation reference ID: Yellow Argon
- Violation: Having excessive and/or irrelevant keywords in the item's description

I am now looking into this to get the extension back on Chrome Web Store.

Hacksore commented 4 months ago

So it was removed for using excessive keywords?

The Opera extension is still up. https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/edit-this-cookie/

Chrome store wayback link: https://web.archive.org/web/20240322070252/https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg

I was concerned that something more serious is going on 😅.

krrr-crypto commented 4 months ago

I am surprised by the developer why he does not fix it. He has been ignoring everyone since 2018. Look at the top. He has Issues 181 When Google deleted him, I see him speaking today

86-hachiroku commented 4 months ago

Can we have some instructions to compile it in order to skip the chrome web store?

Hacksore commented 4 months ago

Not supporting manifest v3 will get you removed from the store as well according to Google. https://github.com/ETCExtensions/Edit-This-Cookie/blob/9973ebb8dacc5b3c485aa1e4c4e0db8a84e4c9e8/manifest.json#L47

Hacksore commented 4 months ago

@86-hachiroku

Can we have some instructions to compile it in order to skip the chrome web store?

Download the code from github as a zip
Extract the zip somewhere
"Load unpacked" in chrome://extensions
Select the unzipped folder

Hacksore commented 4 months ago

It's back on the Chrome Web Store now but it has a warning banner most likely for https://github.com/ETCExtensions/Edit-This-Cookie/issues/370#issuecomment-2241356789.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg

ylluminate commented 4 months ago

Glad to see things becoming sane again. I've not found any comparable extensions that line up with this tool, so hopefully we can see some updates that will resolve Google's own insanity and idiocy. Google itself is a massive scam with "always do evil" as its motto - learned the hard way after having them con me out of investing in one of their products to only have it killed out from under us after an enormous investment of time and money. Google == pure evil.

fcapano commented 4 months ago

It's sad but I have to partially agree with you @ylluminate. I've grown quite disillusioned with Google as a company.

Zero warning from them and extremely vague and unhelpful messages, left me wondering what I needed to do to get the extension back on the store, and had to update the description a couple more times.

The last message sey sent me was literally the following: Violating content: Cookies So I sacrificed a few of the occurrences of the word "cookies" from the description praying that that would make the Google gods happy. I suppose it worked. Oh, and I wasn't even notified it was reinstated, I found out from these comments.

Now off to figure out how manifest V3 will work for ETC...

MakcStudio commented 1 week ago

The extension page right now is still not available, how soon should we expect the extension to come back to google?

It's sad but I have to partially agree with you @ylluminate. I've grown quite disillusioned with Google as a company.

Zero warning from them and extremely vague and unhelpful messages, left me wondering what I needed to do to get the extension back on the store, and had to update the description a couple more times.

The last message sey sent me was literally the following: Violating content: Cookies So I sacrificed a few of the occurrences of the word "cookies" from the description praying that that would make the Google gods happy. I suppose it worked. Oh, and I wasn't even notified it was reinstated, I found out from these comments.

Now off to figure out how manifest V3 will work for ETC...