Maybe I should've hopped the train way earlier, or maybe I'm just a whiny bitch, but I do NOT want to see pop-up ads on my paid service, especially for an even more expensive plan. Like dude, come on.
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Isn't that a promo for Proton itself?
Also known as an advertisement
Sure. An ad for a promo of a product by the firm whose product I'm using does not cross any lines for me and it doesn't even register as an ad in the colloquial sense in my mind. It's like when my local bike shop worker co-op asks me if I want some other product or service when I'm ordering. But I do ubderstand this isn't a universal view.
To me, it feels exactly like Windows advertising Edge, Bing, Cortana, copilot, and onedrive. Which is to say, scummy.
Isolating the market power context, yeah. But that's an important differrence. Is it the dominant player in the product line you're using that you more less have no choice but to use, or is it a small firm with next to no such power doing it. Is it a for-profit enterprise exercising their market power to maximize profits or is it a small non-profit trying to maintain sustaimability. I would react with curses to MS doing it, while being unbothered or even appreciative in the latter case. Assuming this isn't happening with such frequency as to cause annoyance.
For me it really depends show Intrusive and frequent it is shown. Being an ad for you a product I'm already using, in said product buys a little grace but there's still a line.