For people focusing their comments on this particular extension + the permissions it asks for, please take a quick look at the numerous recent posts in the official forum for Chrome extension developers to see it's not an isolated issue:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/chrom...
It's a systematic issue that isn't specific to anything Pushbullet is doing and it's been like this before the pandemic:
- Reviews can take up to 3 weeks. This in alone would be crazy enough if you have an urgent bug to fix.
- Rejection emails are vague and don't tell you what to fix.
- After you guess at what to fix, you've then got to join the up to 3 weeks review queue again.
- If you try too many times, your extension gets pulled.
- On top of this, they've recently disabled new Chrome Web Store paid items, and user reviews.
Can anyone from Google escalate this and help extension developers? I can't speak for everyone but there's lots of complaints in the forum and little action beyond "we hear you and are looking to improve things".
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!forum/chrom...
It's a systematic issue that isn't specific to anything Pushbullet is doing and it's been like this before the pandemic:
- Reviews can take up to 3 weeks. This in alone would be crazy enough if you have an urgent bug to fix.
- Rejection emails are vague and don't tell you what to fix.
- After you guess at what to fix, you've then got to join the up to 3 weeks review queue again.
- If you try too many times, your extension gets pulled.
- On top of this, they've recently disabled new Chrome Web Store paid items, and user reviews.
Can anyone from Google escalate this and help extension developers? I can't speak for everyone but there's lots of complaints in the forum and little action beyond "we hear you and are looking to improve things".