Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
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Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#2That's an incredible number of people they've managed to piss off with that ad! This sounds like a plausible theory:
> Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an advertising stunt to create a viral situation for additional exposure.[0]
[0]: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammy-black-friday-on-e...
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#3glad I'm not the only one who was annoyed by this. it's not a huge deal, but it made me "WTF?"
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#4That's an incredible number of people they've managed to piss off with that ad! This sounds like a plausible theory: > Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an advertising stunt to create a viral situation for additional exposure.[0] [0]: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammy-black-friday-on-e...
Seems like a pretty risky move, but the owner has historically been controversial so wouldn't be too surprised.
https://wptavern.com/yoastcon-overshadowed-by-twitter-storm-...
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#5glad I'm not the only one who was annoyed by this. it's not a huge deal, but it made me "WTF?"
I disagree - to me, it _is_ a huge deal. It's an overstep of a boundary that definitely should not have been crossed.
Yoast has always been borderline spammy with their upgrade nags, but at least historically they followed the WordPress guidelines and kept them inside of the Yoast pages. But flat-out injecting ads into every admin page with not much context is a step too far in my opinion.
As far as I'm concerned, automattic should revoke their wordpress.org plugin hosting until this has been addressed (as this clearly violates their hosting guidelines) and a public apology is issued.
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#6That's an incredible number of people they've managed to piss off with that ad! This sounds like a plausible theory: > Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if this was an advertising stunt to create a viral situation for additional exposure.[0] [0]: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/spammy-black-friday-on-e...
Seems like a pretty risky move, but the owner has historically been controversial so wouldn't be too surprised. https://wptavern.com/yoastcon-overshadowed-by-twitter-storm-...
Actually the comments indicate that the "controversy" seems to be imagined by many people. By the way, I don't know anything about Joost, so he may not be innocent. But the article is an excellent example of an inability to distinguish between consensual but obnoxious stuff and clearly non-consensual behavior.
Also read the comment by Jenny Halasz, it seems very telling: "I had the audacity to start a thread on twitter where I suggested that perhaps we should ask the women involved if they were being harassed before we leveled accusations at the supposed harasser.
For my trouble, I got called a woman hater, an enabler, and plenty of other terrible things (now conveniently deleted by the people who said those awful things: Cohen, Rayner, a handle by the name of callis1987, and Forden)"
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like a pretty risky move, but the owner has historically been controversial so wouldn't be too surprised. https://wptavern.com/yoastcon-overshadowed-by-twitter-storm-...
Actually the comments indicate that the "controversy" seems to be imagined by many people. By the way, I don't know anything about Joost, so he may not be innocent. But the article is an excellent example of an inability to distinguish between consensual but obnoxious stuff and clearly non-consensual behavior. Also read the comment by Jenny Halasz, it seems very telling: "I had the audacity to start a thread on twitt…
You literally just described the circumstances of a controversy. Did you create this account just to do that?
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#8glad I'm not the only one who was annoyed by this. it's not a huge deal, but it made me "WTF?"
I disagree - to me, it _is_ a huge deal. It's an overstep of a boundary that definitely should not have been crossed. Yoast has always been borderline spammy with their upgrade nags, but at least historically they followed the WordPress guidelines and kept them inside of the Yoast pages. But flat-out injecting ads into every admin page with not much context is a step too far in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned, au…
It has been addressed and their CEO offered hundreds of apologies on Twitter. It is definitely not okay and I would still not use them as there are better plugins out there, but they (now) say they made a mistake and owned it.
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I disagree - to me, it _is_ a huge deal. It's an overstep of a boundary that definitely should not have been crossed. Yoast has always been borderline spammy with their upgrade nags, but at least historically they followed the WordPress guidelines and kept them inside of the Yoast pages. But flat-out injecting ads into every admin page with not much context is a step too far in my opinion. As far as I'm concerned, au…
It has been addressed and their CEO offered hundreds of apologies on Twitter. It is definitely not okay and I would still not use them as there are better plugins out there, but they (now) say they made a mistake and owned it.
which SEO plugins would you recommend?
Re: Yoast SEO plugin for WordPress injects Black Friday adverts without permission
#10When people rip on WordPress development this is the sorta crap they're talking about.
In many ecosystems this would warrant the plugin getting pulled from the ecosystem but WP just lets it fly.