cyphase

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I just noticed this a little while ago right after I updated to 2.1.2, although I didn’t make the connection immediately because I hadn’t been on the plugins page when I updated. I dug around and was about to ask about it in the IRC channel (#wordpress) when I saw the following link in the page source:

https://mailoptin.io/?utm_source=moadmin_notice&utm_medium=wp-user-avtar [sic]

I hadn’t noticed the ‘Learn more’ link because the CSS is messed up. Once I saw that it was this plugin, and I remembered that I’d just updated it, I came here and found this thread.

After a bit more digging, I found a file called mo-admin-notice.php; you can see it as it is in 2.1.2 here.

The entire update is just bumping the version numbers and changelog (which doesn’t mention adding the ad), and adding the ad files/code. You can see all the changes here.

A permanent banner for MailOptin is also added to the bottom of the WP User Avatar settings page.

To be clear, for the record, none of the code added in this particular changeset is doing any network communication or retrieving ads from anywhere. The ad is included in the plugin code and everything stays on your WordPress instance.

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• This reply was modified 6 years, 7 months ago by cyphase. Reason: Add code tag to (hopefully) prevent auto linking