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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by jonny383 on Monday December 02, 2019 @04:51AM (#21681117)
1. It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0].

2. If the ad was an admin notice, it didn't look like one. It's a banner image with an outbound tracking link [1].

[0] https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-org/detail... [1] https://imgur.com/a/oN7ZFRU

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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by huxflux on Monday December 02, 2019 @06:11AM (#21681471)
Neither could you click the [X], or it was intentional overlapped for people to missclick. Crooks.
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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by jtbayly on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:44AM (#21682214)
It was hard to click, but I managed to click it, and it worked.
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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by asadkn on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:19AM (#21681254)
I believe they played with the semantics here to perhaps get a pass on it not counting as an exact violation of wp.org repository guidelines. There's a proposal to have strict policies and disallow any sort of global ads now but it seems dismissed [1].

It was a dismissable admin notice that looked like an ad and wasn't exactly a tracking link (in the wp.org classifications at least), but a generic marketing campaign link [2].

[1] https://github.com/WordPress/wporg-plugin-guidelines/pull/69... [2] https://github.com/Yoast/wordpress-seo/blob/12.6.1/admin/cla...

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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by aliswe on Monday December 02, 2019 @05:47AM (#21681371)
Dismissable? Didnt the x button lead to a sales page?
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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by jtbayly on Monday December 02, 2019 @08:43AM (#21682212)
Not when I clicked it.
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Re:Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adver... by dhimes on Monday December 02, 2019 @09:21AM (#21682503)
It goes directly against the WordPress Detailed Plugin Guidelines to both upsell, and to hijack the admin dashboard [0].

Wow. When I was playing with WP I saw this a ton. It was so annoying that I would have to make a point of disabling the phone line home.

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