Rejected twice in 48h due to Yellow Zinc: insufficient description

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Particle

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Feb 10, 2024, 2:48:53 AM2/10/24
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I tried updating my extension on the webstore twice in the past 48h, both times rejected with the same reason:

Violation reference ID: Yellow Zinc

Violation: Description provided is insufficient to understand the functionality of the item.

Although the first time I would concede the description was a bit unclear (it is the same one currently in the published version), the second time around I wrote a description similar to what similar extensions have and were updated recently with success as well.

There are no clear indications on what they consider to be insufficient, or examples of what something sufficient would be, so this is proving to be an extremely frustrating and stressful endeavor.

At this point I am left with no options other than to do a literal copy of a description of a similar extension like enhancer for youtube that is on the web store in hopes of finally being accepted.

Anyone from the Chrome team care to shine a light on this one? My extension is https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/gbjmgndncjkjfcnpfhgidhbgokofegbl

And this was my second description attempt that got rejected:

Iridium is back with v2.0!

Enjoy a more personalized experience on YouTube™ with Iridium, an extension packed with multiple features that allows you to tailor the website look, feel, and behavior tuned to your taste, such as controlling nuisances by managing ads, blocking channels, and disabling shorts, automate tedious tasks by enforcing your preferred video quality and speed of choice, as well as disable autoplay, 60fps, and loudness normalization, enhance navigation by going to your subscriptions when clicking on the YouTube™ logo and automatically go to a default tab when clicking on a channel name, and so much more.

The extension also offers an option to show on Youtube™ pages an Iridium button that opens the extension settings as a convenience so you don't have to another button on your browser toolbar all the time.

With Iridium you have access to a vast number of features, all of which are listed below.

Features:
- Show extension button on YT pages
- Sync the extension settings
- Export, import, and reset extension settings
- Manage how you want your ads to be displayed on the home page, video page, and search page
- Manage video ads, and whether or not to show for subscribed channels
- Control the extension and YT dark/light theme
- Redirect to the subscriptions page when clicking on the YT logo
- Select a default channel tab to go to when clicking on a channel name
- Disable shorts on home, subscription, and search pages
- Video focus allows the content around the player to dim
- Show creator merch below the video details
- Set a default video quality
- Set a default playback speed
- Disable HFR/60fps (YT limits the max quality to 720p)
- Disable video autoplay
- Disable loudness normalization
- Change the video volume during playback using the mouse wheel
- Disable video info cards
- Disable video annotations
- Hide the video endscreen and only show when the mouse cursor is hover
- Show player tools below the player to toggle video focus, take a video screenshot, and open the video thumbnail
- Show video monetization info below the player with ad count and sponsored indication
- Add channels to the blacklist to stop showing its videos on the website (does not affect vertical short thumbnails due to YT limitation)
- Show a Block Channel button on each video thumbnail context menu to quickly add that channel to the blacklist
- Add channels individually, import, export, or delete them from the list


If you found any issues please report them in the official repository for better support: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium

Visit the release tracker for detailed changelogs: https://github.com/ParticleCore/Iridium/releases

This extension does not collect, distribute, or process any form of data from the user, any data used is locally restricted to the extension functionality.


Particle

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Feb 10, 2024, 9:48:44 AM2/10/24
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Seems like it worked, but I will not that I do not think the problem was the description of the extension at all (the one that we can write on the CWS), I believe the issue all along was the extension "summary" that is included in the extension's manifest.json

It is a bit confusing because the field in the manifest file is called "description" but on the CWS it shows as "summary", and they also provide a separate field called "description".

So if any of you undergoing the same problem finds this out, try updating the description inside your manifest file, not the one on the CWS listing.
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