This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing

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Ethan

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Sep 4, 2021, 3:11:52 PM9/4/21
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We published a new extension and users are getting this warning: "Proceed with caution - This extension is not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing."


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I was able to find an explanation for the warning, pasted below. However, our developer account is over a year old and we've published multiple extensions without this warning. How can we check our trusted developer status?

From the Learn more page: 

For additional protection when you install a new extension from the Chrome Web Store, you can use Enhanced Safe Browsing. If you enable Enhanced Safe Browsing in Chrome, it warns you when an extension you want to install isn’t trusted. Extensions are considered trusted when they’re built by a developer who follows the Chrome Web Store Developer Program Policies.
For new developers, it generally takes a few months to become trusted. Eventually, we strive for all developers with compliant extensions to reach this status upon meeting our developer program policies.


Simeon Vincent

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Sep 8, 2021, 12:11:59 AM9/8/21
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At the moment the only way to check your "trusted developer status" is to try to install one of your extensions while on a profile with the Safe Browsing > Enhanced protection setting enabled on chrome://settings/security. More to the point, there's currently no way for a developer to find out why they or their extensions do not qualify for this program. Needless to say I wouldn't exactly call this an ideal situation. 

Could you share the ID of the extension in question? I'm currently gathering information about cases where developers are surprised to see that their extensions are "not trusted by Enhanced Safe Browsing".

Simeon - @dotproto
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