Having your business beholden to <i>any</i> app store is a bit scary, but Google's chrome web store is probably the most precarious. As far as I can tell, almost every negative action taken against you is done in an automated fashion, with basically no human recourse beyond knowing someone on the inside or hoping for a negative PR cycle.<p>At least with the mobile app stores, a good review process with <i>some</i> human recourse is baked into the incentives of the platform, since lots of money is involved.<p>With the Chrome web store, you get the feeling it is just there because Google capitulated in the past, acknowledging that browser extensions are necessary to be a mainstream browser. Beyond that, it seems to be moderated with two goals: reduce overhead cost and mitigate any security threats.<p>The result is the complaints you hear from every extension developer:<p>* Google arbitrarily blocks a decent % of updates, because of automated flagging<p>* Google removes extensions with basically no recourse, often for unclear reasons<p>* Google itself (if I remember correctly) even recommends using a Google account separate from your personal/work email, since often these automated suspensions take down the account connected to it too<p>Don't get me wrong, browser extensions have a lot of power and that's often an issue (malware, browser history collection, phishing, etc). Still, building an extension for Chrome involves the constant reminder that you are under the thumb of a big monolith organization that is indifferent to you.