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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?
> That BlackFridayBanner was not the best idea. We’re truly sorry for the annoyance and difficulties it may have caused. We did not think this through properly. If you want, you can update to a new version of our plugin without that banner. #blackfriday #neveragain #apologies"[1]
> I OK'd this. I am the CEO. And I made a big mistake. I am sorry. [2]
[1] https://twitter.com/MariekeRakt/status/1200077958700044290
[2] https://twitter.com/MariekeRakt/status/1200077958700044290
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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?
Yes I did, because I don't have any other account to use on HN. I am not sure what you are implying here.
That'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...
The plugin-landscape in Wordpress is plagued by bugs and ads, some spamming you to update or pay for a premium version. That is not something you would accept for professional CMS solutions.
If you consider yourself knowledgeable in SEO, then learn to walk the talk and stop relying on phony third-party plugins!
SEO is such a small part of owning a website, and ideally, any technical SEO that is needed should be integrated in the core CMS by developers and not fiddled with at random by clueless bloggers or SEO gurus.
Since Wordpress is such "crapware" out-of-the-box, you can easily create a Yoast replacement plugin to handle what is really needed. The rest is just useless bloat and clutter.
I would not touch Yoast in my wildest dream. It is totally redundant for people who can code themselves.
wordpress plugin as well as mobile app stores are reminiscent of the ugly pc shareware and freewares of past 30 decades.
Did this happen on their GPL version, or their "premium" version, or both?
The garbage user experience with most plugins led me to collect together a bunch of ideas from plugins I used and rewrite almost all of them entirely into one spam-free plugin. I did it for my own sanity as a user of my own plugin but I'd like to see more " old fashioned" plugins that are providing high quality code for everyone's free benefit.