I had trouble with Google suddenly asking me to prove I'm not a bot - for months. I ended up buying a new router because my old one hadn't seen any updates in ages, just in case that got hacked.
Long story short, after some experimenting the only thing that seemed to shut Google up was to disable this extension.
This extension does load code from a remote site, they write it is because having new releases approved takes too long so this is how they work around it. I had BTTV report a newer version number than there was in the Chrome Web Store for that reason.
I don't understand they are allowed to do that, quite openly even? It defeats the purpose of the Chrome Web Store and any guarantees by Google are worthless if extensions can just load some of their code from somewhere else.
Now, this extension actually is open source (https://github.com/night/BetterTTV) and I have not read about any suspicions like mine from anyone else. Still, as I said above, Google only stopped asking me to verify I'm no robot after disabling this extension, and I tried several times (on/off).
And the code loading happens quite officially, I first read it on the extensions developer website itself. From their github README:
> Files not included in the repo are pulled from the actual server,
> so everything works.
I had trouble with Google suddenly asking me to prove I'm not a bot - for months. I ended up buying a new router because my old one hadn't seen any updates in ages, just in case that got hacked.
Long story short, after some experimenting the only thing that seemed to shut Google up was to disable this extension.
This extension does load code from a remote site, they write it is because having new releases approved takes too long so this is how they work around it. I had BTTV report a newer version number than there was in the Chrome Web Store for that reason.
I don't understand they are allowed to do that, quite openly even? It defeats the purpose of the Chrome Web Store and any guarantees by Google are worthless if extensions can just load some of their code from somewhere else.
Now, this extension actually is open source (https://github.com/night/BetterTTV) and I have not read about any suspicions like mine from anyone else. Still, as I said above, Google only stopped asking me to verify I'm no robot after disabling this extension, and I tried several times (on/off).
And the code loading happens quite officially, I first read it on the extensions developer website itself. From their github README: