why would you like my email adress

and if I ask something you give me no answer
you send me always the same automativ mail that I can buy your plugin

nobody can’t use your plugin without entering an email adress!

That sounds very wrong. It also looks very familiar.

*Installs plugin on test rig*

That’s seriously not good and violates the plugin guidelines in several places.

https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/about/guidelines/

First off, the plugin asks your for your email address for collection purposes. That’s not needed and the impression is that you need to send them a valid email to get to the settings page for that plugin.

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/yeloni-free-exit-popup/trunk/settings/admin-new-user-form.php

Entering in Name: R. You Kidding and Email: [email protected] will get you past that initial page once you reload.

The settings option page defaults to having the “popup powered by yeloni” turned on by default.

Powered by links are explicitly disallowed and must default to being turned off.

Then there is the issue regarding the free advertising the plugin does. The popup includes a this.

<div class="yel-wm-remove"><a href="https://yeloni.com/yeloni-premium-features.php" target="_blank"> ?remove this</a></div>

Not good and using other people’s blog for free advertising, like the powered by link, is really inappropriate.

@jayasrinagrale I see you are updating the code right now. Is this going to be addressed in the update? I’d like to be able to say that you are when I send the plugins team all of these details.

@jayasrinagrale Also? I’ve read this reply.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/deception-2?replies=2&view=all#post-6944477

1. Name & Email: The name and email are collected at the beginning so that we can support with the installation, if need be – which many of our users find quite useful.

That is not a valid reason for collecting email addresses.

I missed this part too.

Remove "powered by yeloni":   Required for the free version. Remove it for a small fee click here

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/yeloni-free-exit-popup/trunk/settings/advanced-settings-box.php#L14

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/yeloni-free-exit-popup/trunk/popup/yel-footer-scripts.js#L72

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/yeloni-free-exit-popup/trunk/popup/includes/yel_social_modal.php#L98

https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/yeloni-free-exit-popup/trunk/popup/includes/yel_linked_image_modal.php#L49

By commenting out the conditionals on those last 2 files you can remove the popup powered by yeloni.com links without paying anything.

*Drinks last of coffee*

That’s going to be a long email I’m sending.

Version 1.8 doesn’t collect emails any more, but the backlink is not turned off by default and the code to collect mails are still there.

I know how to turn of the backlink, but this is not a solution for everybody.

@jayasrinagrale

I’m willing and able to pay or spent money for a good plugin.

Most of the time I like free plugins for testing it out… but I’m not willing to pay for “deleting a backlink”. This is the false way to make money with WP.

And your link is not “nofollow” this is bad for your website and for every site which is using your plugin. Yandex//Google//Yahoo are killing all sites with paid links and the backlink from your plugin is looking like a paid backlink…

For this reason the plugin guidelines from www.ads-software.com doesn’t allow to force a backlink to the plugin author with or without “nofollow”.

For this reason the plugin guidelines from www.ads-software.com doesn’t allow to force a backlink to the plugin author with or without “nofollow”.

No. The plugin guidelines say “You may not have a backlink that isn’t OPT IN.”

https://developer.www.ads-software.com/plugins/wordpress-org/detailed-plugin-guidelines/

Item #10

No backlinks at all, unless the user clicks a box that says “Yes, I allow backlinks.” it’s that simple.

I understand “is not opt in” as I explain in my words above.
Maybe I have troubles to understand because english is not my motherspeech.

Hi All,

Sorry I just saw this thread.
Please let me explain.

Yes, the collection of email address at the beginning was wrong and I apologize for that. As mentioned, this was so that users can contact me for support. I’ve changed that in V2.

Inclusion of the watermark was also against guidelines. My bad.

I’ve released a new version (V2) of the plugin that has no backlinks and a contact option if any one needs support. Apart from that its free to use.

Thanks.
If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with me on [email protected]