[9dev]

> A persistently visible ad for a paid service you don't want, in a paid product you paid for? That alone is a justifiable reason for the outrage.

Oh, you mean like up- and cross-selling CTAs in, well, virtually any SaaS product under the sun? If that was a reason for outrage, we’d spend the work week screaming. Or is it that you just want to be enraged because an LLM is involved here?

[tikhonj]

Maybe we should have a higher standard for quality developer tools than enterprise shovelware?

[infinitezest]

Are you arguing that this kind of advertising is a good or neutral thingm. Or that life just kind of sucks and we need to get used to it? I'd rather push for better software and advertising practices, personally...

[9dev]

Neither, really. I hate ads as much as the next guy, but a) people seem to have no big problems with upselling in the myriad of other subscription services they use (at least I can’t remember regular ”outrage“), and b) a few subtle buttons in the UI that offer to buy an extension are hardly as atrocious as some people here act like.

Life does kinda suck and we do need to get used to it, I guess. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t strive for a better world, but until we don’t have a working alternative to advertising, I’d rather have models like JetBrains than Adobe…

[therealdrag0]

Seems neutral or good to me. Without advertising users don’t know a feature exists they want.