That your competitors product is illegal is an excellent point to showcase for potential users. We're not even talking real mudslinging, just pointing out reality. Being offended over this is baffling to me.

Yeah, fight with whatever tool you have including going negative.

I don’t for a second think Google would hold back if their own behemoth was in under mortal threat and their main competitor had been found guilty of illegal acts.

The invisible hand of the market (fwiw) relies on free flow of information. Educating the public about Google’s illegal acts is an act of service, though self serving.

Allowing yourself to engage in immoral/shady activity just because your competitor is doing it actually helps your competitor by legitimizing their methods, it's an endless cycle of "but they did it first".

How’s it immoral to make sure the public knows that a product they are planning to use has been declared illegal in a certain jurisdiction?

In fact, given the state of regulatory capture, it’s a public service to educate consumers locally about how a competitor’s actions are perceived abroad.

The title of this post is just the website url - there's no indication it's actually an advertisement. The whole thing is designed to trick people, and I'd say most people don't like being tricked by marketers

Nor is there any indication that whoever posted it here had anything to do with PostHog (which, to be clear, is apparently an open source project, not a paid service like everyone seems to have assumed).

PostHog is absolutely a paid service, with features only available in non-free tiers.

https://posthog.com/pricing

Doesn't matter. The entire website iandesigned to mislead and manipulate SEO, and the sponsor is only mentioned in a small blob on bottom.

It's posted by the cofounder. Click on their username.