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by mystiick 918 days ago
A plugin that reinstalls itself to ask for money is malicious intent
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Counterpoint: if you click once (per product install) to dismiss the "ask for money", then don't touch anything related to the plugin again, you won't hear from it thereafter.

Are we really equating poorly-coded add-ons to malware now? And again, I ask this as someone who lived through the whole broken experience of AI previews in JetBrains products and ignoring all of that. That literally took me less time than typing this comment...

You're saying "a thing that happens is intent" it's literally nonsensical.