Bait and Switch Plugin ..

  • mkmetz

    (@mkmetz)


    2 years, 2 months ago

    Def do not recommend using this plugin what so ever… first it works, then it doesn’t, need help? They want you to pay for everything.. its a bait and switch tactic we see too many times.

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  • Plugin Support csonnek

    (@csonnek)

    Happiness Rocketeer 🚀

    2 years, 2 months ago

    Akismet has and always will be free for personal, non-commercial sites.

    If your site has advertising or affiliate links, sells products or services, solicits donations or sponsorships, or is in any way related to a business – your site is considered commercial and we ask that you pay for the service. This has been our policy for well over a decade.

    Per our documentation and Terms of Service, we can suspend sites for noncompliance of those terms without notice.

    Hope that clarifies things.

    Plugin Author Stephane Daury (stephdau)

    (@stephdau)

    2 years, 2 months ago

    That’s an interesting perspective, @mkmetz.

    Our signup flow, documentation, and terms of services all clearly state that Akismet is only free for personal sites/use, and that commercial use requires a paid subscription.

    From what I can tell in our records (based on your avatar and username), theonestopblogshop opted to ignore those clear requirements, and abused a free API key for years to provide Akismet services to its own paying customers (which amounted to around 200 sites). We reached out to point that fact out in February 2019, and when not action was taken on theonestopblogshop’s side, we ended up suspending that account for violation of our terms of services.

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