bait and switch

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    Can you clarify that comment, please?

    The plugin is just a front, a bait and switch trying to get you to purchase a proprietary plugin instead. This plugin’s functionality is way reduced, and it’ll just push you to buy a proprietary one instead.

    Plugin Author Todd Lahman

    (@toddlahman)

    There are over 563,000 downloads of Spam Free WordPress. If it was fake no would download it, and www.ads-software.com would have pulled it out of the repository.

    [ Unnecessary personal comment deleted ]

    It’s not that the plugin is fake, but now just a lousy front that’s mostly designed to push people towards a proprietary (and probably GPL-violating) alternative.

    The vast majority of those downloads were from before the “update” over the summer that turned the plugin into a bait and switch promo for another proprietary plugin.

    This review is consistent with the vast majority of other 1-star reviews that have come in since the summer. Don’t be fooled by positive reviews or large downloads from pre-Summer 2013. The current plugin is lousy, pretty much a bait and switch for another proprietary (likely GPL-violating) plugin, and you can no longer trust any “updates” to this plugin.

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