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Pardon my ignorance: but how one actually earns money with chrome extensions?

• RaitoBezarius 10y ago
  You can ask the user to pay a subscription fee to use the extension. (a freemium model for example). Then, the user, in fact, pays only for using the back-end API. The front-end, of course, is like a website, """open-source""".
  • justanton 10y ago
    does Chrome Web Store have this feature built-in (to offer and process payments for extensions)?
    • erikrothoff 10y ago
      And yes, Chrome web store allows payments. We have http://braintreepayments.com http://braintreepayments.com and http://paypal.com http://paypal.com. Having them play together is hard enough...
• erikrothoff 10y ago
  You can either sell your users data (we get a lot offers for that...). It is not scalable and does not feel good in the tummy. We've been approached by fairly large reputable companies wanting click stream data, and smaller companies wanting everything from DNS misses to adding affiliate links in webpages. These are not good for your users and will not scale. Also Google is constantly cracking down on these schemes and rightfully banning extensions that do this. It hurts the rest of us. We're focusing on building a great product and a scalable business. Making money from our users should be off something that benefits them as well, like a pro service with more features.