Comments on: Yahoo's Delicious proves Chrome extensions real

Chrome's extensions framework has matured enough for Yahoo to release an alpha version of an add-on to use its social-bookmarking service.

[flickrz]

Wonder why google haven't build in bookmark sharing in chrome that syncs anywhere if you are logged in?

[Shankland]

Given that there are third-party extensions that already do this (I like and use Xmarks on Firefox, for example), Google likely is focusing its Chrome resources where they're more urgently needed. Bookmark management springs to mind--it doesn't even exist in the Mac version of Chrome yet, and there's little point to bookmark sync without bookmark management first.

[seven7dust]

that would be killer

[BlitzBoy1120]

well if they were to design an ad-blocker for chrome, they could make it to specifically show only google ads

[Shankland]

But if somebody else were to design it, they could design it otherwise. There's nothing stopping others from developing extensions.

[Drummer16161616]

No ad block....no care

[hankthedwarf]

I think most people object to image and flash-based ads. Google's lifeblood is text ads. They probably will allow adblock, but not the sister extension Element Hiding Helper, which can be used to block entire sections of pages.

[cp256]

Stupid advertisers and advert enablers think that preventing ad blocking will in some way lead to ad haters paying attention to ads and blowing money up their wazoos? Blocking ad blockers just pisses people off while allowing them cause virtually no decline in the advertiser's sales revenue and may in fact increase the click per view ratio. Displaying an ad to someone who really doesn't want to see it is of negative true value. I use ADP on FF 3.5 and I love it. I have gone to great lengths in the past to block web spam, including building a unix proxy box to replace web page ads with my own random anti-spam messages. Do the persistent ad spammers really think jamming an ad in my face will lead to my purchasing something? Not bloody likely. Make it easy for me to block your ads and you gain a little good will.

[Shankland]

You say, "Make it easy for me to block your ads and you gain a little good will." If the ad is blocked, how do you know to whom you should direct your goodwill? I'm not sure many advertisers will find your offer terribly enticing. :)

I'm not sure overall how anxious advertisers are about ad-blocking technology. Though I can't imagine advertisers like it much, I think the vast majority of people don't go to the trouble to figure out how.

[manwalklikebear]

I hope they don't go crazy with extensions. I like Chrome for it's simplicity and i'd hate to see it get bogged down the way Firefox has.