Is there a way for me to use my own extensions without the disabling feature kicking in every time I start chrome because I didn't get it from the play store?
There might be a way.<p>One workaround might be user side scripting. Many things that can be written as browser extensions can be written as a user script. User scripts are locally hosted Javascript scripts that execute on pages selected by the user.<p>The original(?) user side scripting facility was GreaseMonkey for Firefox. TamperMonkey implements the GreaseMonkey API as a Chrome extension and is available in the store.<p>As an example, I use this script on HN: <a href="https://github.com/brudgers/hn_utilities" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/brudgers/hn_utilities</a>