Google to expel spammy, pointless Chrome extensions at end of August

Stop repeating yourself. Stop repeating yourself

Soares and Ackerman lumped the anti-spam guidelines into five categories, disallowing:

• Multiple extensions that perform the same task or provide the same experience.

• Add-ons that include more than five keywords embedded in the metadata, or use the same word or phrase more than five times in the Chrome Web Store description. Potentially misleading or irrelevant metadata is also forbidden.

• Extensions whose only purpose is to install, launch or open another app or a website. (Google might have some cleanup of its own to do, as