[chaozznl]

If everyone that reads this simply takes the time to report it, the HN community should be able to get this extension down fairly quicly, right?

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/report/mabdjppmcjpjplolig...

[carschno]

While I appreciate the approach of making "the world" a bit better once you see a chance to do so, I also don't think a company like Google should (be able to) leave it to random internet users to clean up their mess.

[geocar]

They could offer a bounty.

[carschno]

They could also hire people to do that necessary job.

[geocar]

I assumed they did.

[sprkwd]

Yeah, don’t assume that.

[ocdtrekkie]

I tried the report abuse button and got a 404 when submitting the form. Lol, classic Google.

EDIT: My guess is they delisted the extension right about as I was submitting, since the extension page loaded, but the report submission failed, and now the extension is also gone. Maybe a cache purge was in there somewhere.

[ganeshkrishnan]

I reported abuse few minutes back. Google pulled it out shortly after that.

Also I am pretty sure Google has a "karma" number for users (just like reddit) in the backend where they automatically take down if report is from a user with high karma.

[denysvitali]

It's Google, so, no?

[dijit]

Google’s automated systems do have anomaly detection that would flag it if there were many reports though.

[Cthulhu_]

That's exactly it, dogpiling can be discarded as anti-competitive behaviour.

[formerly_proven]

It works on other, bigger and more important Google properties what makes you think the Chrome store handles it properly?

[igbk]

aaaand its gone. Worked two minutes ago, now the link responds with 404.