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Here is what I am referring to:

Installation

If you are using Subscribe To Comments by Mark Jaquith, disable it (no need to uninstall it, though)
Upload the entire folder and all the subfolders to your WordPress plugins’ folder. You can also use the downloaded ZIP file to upload it.
Activate it
Customize the Permalink value under Settings > Subscribe to Comments > Management Page > Management URL. It must reflect your permalinks’ structure

Which plugin would you be referring to? Thanks! (I just get your profile when I click on the gopiplus link)

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Yes, I am still on-base with what Jetpack uses from your subscribers. This is directly off their privacy page:

QUOTE: Follower and Subscriber Information: When a visitor signs up to follow or subscribe to a Site using Jetpack or WordPress.com, we collect the sign-up information requested by the Site, which typically includes an email address.

So Jetpack wouldn’t be what I am looking for.

Isn’t the Jetpack plugin just another mystery entity that you have no guarantee of what is happening to your subscriber’s email addresses? I tried to track Jetpack down a few years ago and abandoned them because I got no guarantee the email addresses were not being “farmed out”. If I am recalling correctly, the email addresses are kept within their architecture rather than your own database.

Agreed, I hope they paid highly for it. A list of valid user emails interested in a specific topic is a valuable thing to pass to the wrong person or group, or really anyone outside the circle where they placed their trust.

Well then, can you as an improvement to usability make the ReadyGraph a little less “in your face”. The big full screen ReadyGraph that comes up by default on the plugin settings could just be a check marked option in my opinion. Also can you provide a way to stop the pop up banner on the site admin’s plug-in panel that keeps appearing every time you go to the plug in panel and informing the admin they need to install readygraph until (I assume) someone installs it. Thanks!

Where can I find v9.5? I searched online and all the links I can find point me to the new ReadyGraph version. It looks like the only email subscription plugin we are left with that doesn’t send out lists of email subscribers to Google or WordPress.com or Readygraph or some other unknown is this paid plugin
https://premium.wpmudev.org/project/subscribe-by-email/ I have spoken with the developers and to get the plugin you have to pay an initial $19 for this plugin but this puts you on a monthly billing cycle for support for it. They say you can cancel that immediately and continue to use the plugin without having to pay the subscription. However, you do have to re-enable the subscription for another $19 whenever you need an update.

In the meantime if anyone has the last 9.5 version, please let me know where to find. I’ll likely go with it until a wordpress revision causes it to start to fail, then I’ll migrate to the paid.

Funny, I just submitted a request to www.ads-software.com to include an email subscription to the core. They claimed as a “nitche” requirement and that there are “plenty of plugins for it”. I guess I am missing something that there must be just a handful of blogers who have people interested enough to subscribe to new posts or that everyone is on board with turning over their subscriber lists for use by blind entities?

Depends on what one considers “free”. If a plugin collects a site’s list of email IDs of subscribers and sends that list of email subscribers to Google, Facebook, WordPress.com, ReadyGraph or XYZ.com, then to me the plugin is NOT free but is instead compromising our user’s personal information while robbing one of the largest assets of the website, the private user subscription lists.

Since there is no reply yes/no if our updating to the new Subscribe2 release while overtly avoiding installing ReadyGraph, if saying NO will still send all our existing subscribing customer email addresses to the ReadyGraph cloud or not – there could be legal ramifications if this indeed occurs. You might want to check into it if that is their plan. Your customers, and unfortunately for the people who liked this plugin the way it was but didn’t contribute enough of a monetary incentive to keep you on as the developer, they may be stricken with quite a surprise when they find all their web subscribers emails have been whiffed up to the ReadyGraph cloud if this is indeed the plan of the existing roll-out.

I will pay for the code before I would agree for my user community to start getting ads or offers of how “Dear user you might enjoy this or that blog if you liked the other blog you just subscribed to”.

There is also the option of a developer to start charging for code or to create a lite and a paid version with more features without the collection of data involved.

By the same token you can just say yes/no that the ReadyGraph gourp is collecting our user’s email addresses or not. Everyone wants free, and people who like to code often provide free code as a hobby or as a reward for self accomplishment (see OpenSource). You are right, we have the choice to use a plugin or not. What is a bit hard to understand though is why someone who says something is free would all of a sudden start collecting their trusting user’s info and not make it clear that is happening.

If you are collecting info, that is certainly your prerogative. I just would like to know with a yes or no answer. That is all, no ill will is implied, just disappointment. Thanks again for your response.

Do you absolutely guarantee that ReadyGraph is not getting access to my list of subscribed users or any analytical data from my users if I don’t sign up for it? Thank you.

Why does a banner keep popping up on my Admin panel (which will inevitably cause an unsuspecting admin to accidentally install it) telling me it needs to be installed? I can’t get past the giant ReadyGraph panel to access any of the plugin settings. The only option is to sign up for it. I can’t see how to get rid of all the nags and past forced sign-up banner and into the plugin customization panel.