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(not parent) their onboarding pushing is frequent, app is fine but web is popup-y with offers/perks

<rant>if i get popups slowing down my web visit it makes me less likely to upsell to, i'd rather a seperate pricing page that i have to manually click to see, my memory serves that most services ive bought have no popup modal (my memory is probably wrong statistically but right emotionally\

maybe op was a/b tested to something more irritating

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> (not parent) their onboarding pushing is frequent, app is fine but web is popup-y with offers/perks

Fair. They do advertise plans to existing subscribers, even plans that aren’t even an upgrade from your current one.

However on the other hand they do offer a toggle to turn these off completely in the settings. One could argue that it should be opt-in rather than opt-out though.

I wouldn’t count this as a black mark against their reputation though as it’s not the product inherently getting worse.

Funny enough this has been pointed out a lot pretty frequently this past week.

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