The pricing for premium (stats) is ridiculous

  • smothy

    (@smothy)


    7 months ago

    I’ve been blogging for over a decade. Never commercialized, never made a dime, didn’t care. Used Jetpack the whole time, almost exclusively for its stat function. But after losing my job, I thought “hey, let’s slap some ads on and maybe I can afford to pay for my domain hosting next year.”

    Boom. Now I’m a “commercial” site because I make (on a very good month) ~$20 CAD from Google ads (before tax). Which means, a site like mine that has too much traffic and is thus “commercial” by Jetpack’s logic would have to pay MORE annually than I MAKE to use their stat function.

    Riddle me this: why is this not based off some sort of earn threshold? Why extort loyal users and promoters of Jetpack who’ve used it for decades? Why not let us download a summary of our decades of data that basically got erased forever the minute I updated my Jetpack to the latest version? Of course I can just use a different stats tracker, but now I can’t compare it to my historical track record.

    You guys need to make money, fine. Such is capitalism. But this has to be the most ass-backwards pricing model for a premium product I’ve ever seen. Can’t afford it, wouldn’t pay for it if I could. All I’m left with is the bitter feeling of a spurned once-evangelist.

    • This topic was modified 7 months ago by smothy.
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  • Hi,

    Thanks for raising this issue. At this time, there isn’t an exception for cases like yours. The best option is to either remove ads or to shift to a different stat tracking plugin.

    All the best,

    Exactly.

    I have a few (literally – a FEW) affiliate links on my site. Notably, for books and for my web host. Although I really haven’t made a dime from any of them (much less ~$20!) I value them more than I do the formerly-free features of Jetpack. And clearly, it’s mutual, as my site is suddenly categorized as “commercial.”

    That’s okay. I have alternatives that are still free, and if I didn’t, I could live without ALL of them. So I am in the process of uninstalling Jetpack from all of my sites, and they no longer get any “free” advertising from me! Seems fair enough.

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