Annoyed after my Chrome extension got rejected

For the past two months, I've been working on a browser extension for my marketing tool https://moonkit.io

Without the extension, the tool is useless. So I got a bit upset when Google rejected the extension with a general statement like "it looks suspicious". 🥺

I went on a short blaming trip: How horrible it is to be at a mercy of a big corporation, to be held hostage indefinitely, to be at risk of being shut down any time by a third party,... (Well those risks still apply and it got me thinking about a future direction for my project, so thanks, Google! 🖖)

But then I remembered something I've learned just recently after many years of failure: To trash my hurt-driven activism and simply accept the situation as it is, adapt and overcome.

I understand Google needs to filter out malicious extensions. Mine was new and it needed wide permissions. Suspicious. So I went through the code, removed anything absolutely non-essential, reworked some concepts to lower the permission requirements and added more screenshots and explanations.

Then I finally got approved and I plan on adding features gradually.

If you are up to it, I'd be glad if you could test out my beta: https://moonkit.io 🦀