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regretoverflow
regretoverflow

Reputation: 2153

Disabling In-App Purchases in Chrome extension I no longer support

I have an extension that has 2 in-app subscription items. I unpublished the extension months ago, but the Chrome Web Store does not allow disabling in-app purchases, OR deleting an item from the store. I also updated the store listing begging no one to install or purchase any in-app items, but I logged in today after receiving a strange voicemail from an angry customer that had subscribed to both in-app purchases. I was horrified to learn that if you don't update your extension, users of an old version can (and will) purchase in-app subscriptions that my extension cannot deliver anymore. I've had to go through every purchase, refund the order, then cancel each subscription.

Is there a way to stop this? The code that I had published has been totally re-written and published under a different extension now, so there's not a practical way to release a new version that disables the in-app purchases, and that won't affect existing installations that are not updated anyway. The Chrome App Store is a HUGE cluster with very little thought towards developers managing their products.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 363

Answers (1)

Rob W
Rob W

Reputation: 349142

Since you do not want to maintain nor support the old extensions any more, just publish an update that removes the extension (the extension can be unlisted):

manifest.json (the version number must be higher than your currently published version)

{
    "name": "Do not use me",
    "version": "1.0",
    "manifest_version": 2,
    "background": {
        "scripts": ["background.js"]
    }
}

background.js (using chrome.management.uninstallSelf):

chrome.management.uninstallSelf();

Upvotes: 5

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