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Re:Popular WordPress plugin tried to spam users' dashboards by lioeters on Friday November 29, 2019 @06:39AM (#21663728)
It was an intrusive ad banner, with a deceptive close button that redirected users to a sales page. That should have never been allowed to happen, if they value their reputation.

On the other hand, they quickly responded by removing the ad and apologizing publicly.

https://twitter.com/MariekeRakt/status/1200077958700044290?s...

It was the right move.

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Re:Popular WordPress plugin tried to spam users' dashboards by martin_a on Friday November 29, 2019 @10:09AM (#21664798)
> On the other hand, they quickly responded by removing the ad and apologizing publicly.

I hate this. It's about testing the waters, seeing with what you can get away and how loud the users will cry. Nothing about this was happened without a reason.

Automattic should just outright ban plugins that are using dark UI patterns like this.

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