Wdym chrome extension is 'sold'?

[giri256]

are both different code bases? everyone got pranked with a crypto miner?

[bob-jones-cs]

@Stigmatoz, your actions here were completely unacceptable, dishonest, and scummy. You owe your extension's users a massive apology. Having the extension be open source and safe/reliable was the whole reason I and many other users installed it in the first place. Now to find out that you sold the extension to others with no warning or indication to us users? That is abhorrent and a massive betrayal of our trust. Also, don't even try to claim your edit to the README was sufficient "warning" for us. The vast majority of people don't visit a Chrome extension's GitHub page and your profile, let alone with any regularity to see the README warning. That is not an acceptable method to communicate a major ownership change.

And clearly the people to whom you sold the extension were shady actors as the extension has been removed from the Chrome webstore at some point since you sold it. Thanks for the time and effort you put into the original extension. It looked and functioned great. The language I want to use for your greed and scummy behavior in your recent actions is too explicit for a GitHub issue comment. What you did was indefensible. You prioritized greed over integrity, and I hope you take some time to think about that and how that reflects on you as a person.

[noam-sc]

Is anyone interested into making a fork of the extension to continue it and cleanly republish it ?
I used this extension for so long I'd like to keep it alive in a proper end ethical manner.

And also: what happened to our data ?

Edit: just made one https://github.com/noam-sc/web-activity-time-tracker

[Stigmatoz]

Guys, I feel your pain, and I feel the same way. When I sold my extension, I think the new owners will improve it and work on it. And it was my fault too. I had to search more carefully and painstakingly for new owners to whom I could sell the extension. And I've also been using this time tracker since day one.

So when I saw in the browser that the extension had been removed, I published the new extension in the Chrome Store. The new extension is called TimeSpy. Right now, I'm waiting for approval from the store.

[Stigmatoz]

This is the new extension https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/timespy-block-websites-po/ggomgkmpcnmfhgmpfaphkbmnokllflom

[surlyhacker]

@Stigmatoz I don't quite understand. You sold some aspect of the extension to a third party. It was then removed from the Chrome Web Store. And now you've republished it yourself (presumably from this repo) under a different listing on the Store.

So, when you sold it, you didn't transfer the github repository to the new owner? Why?
Did you transfer your copyright of the code to the new owners as part of the sale? How did you handle code contributed by other individuals to the repository? Is there an agreement with them that relates to the transfer to copyright?

I guess you republished it because you don't like what the new owners have done?
Do you intend to continue to maintain this newly published version? If so, why did you sell it?
Do you happen to know if the new owners are keeping the source open and if so, where is it?

[ewoks]

@bob-jones-cs in all fairness there was update in march 2025 stating that extension changed the owner.

@Stigmatoz please explain honestly what happened to avoid further misunderstandings and wild speculations..
clarifying previously asked questions can be good starging point to clear up shattered trust

[bob-jones-cs]

@ewoks That isn't anywhere even close to sufficient. Only a very small fraction of developers would monitor the repositories for every installed extension they have. Let alone the standard extension user.

There are very few reasons that could justify this. Even if we take the most viable of the benevolent reasons (e.g., that Stigmatoz wanted to make some cash, didn't think that those who bought the extension would modify it for malicious purposes, and just overall had terrible communication with the extension users), then that would be more than enough reason to completely lose trust. Let alone more shady intentions.

[yodude5]

In the new version can you make a way where you can add your data please????????? It would be really helpful. So my data over the last few years isn't lost.