Earlier this year, Google made some modifications to the Chrome Web Store. That modification is to curb some of the malicious extensions. Again, Google announced new changes that are going to happen in Chrome Web Store soon. That is, Paid Chrome Extensions will no longer be available on the Chrome Web Store.
As a result, the developers who are trying to monetize their extensions will have to choose other payment-handling systems.
Similar Google policy that has already been in place since March. However, last Monday, Google officially said developers could no longer make new paid Chrome Extensions. In the same policy, Google had found a rise in fraudulent transactions. Due to this, Google made a temporary suspension of publishing paid extensions in January.
On February 1st of this year, Google announced that existing extensions could no longer charge any payments from the customers using the Chrome Store’s payments system.
The company rolled out several policy updates in April, expecting to reduce spam extensions and banning multiple extensions that do a similar job. It has restricted developers to manipulate reviews to get better placement for their extension. And it has also forbidding extensions that abuse notifications. These are some of the few notable changes to chrome store extensions that Google has made this year.
There is a probability that most people haven’t even purchased a Chrome extension before. So this change may not matter too much after all. However, any Chrome extension that requires a paid element will need to be using billing details and methods aside from what Google has long offered in the past years.
This year, Google has done many policy changes in the Chrome Store, particularly for paid chrome extension. Let’s hope these changes and modification makes a secure and user-friendly Chrome environment.
