Awful now. Feel tricked.

So, this used to be my goto anti spam plugin.

IT IS NO LONGER THE SAME PLUGIN

latest update has replaced what was a good plugin with something very different. This actually represents a huge problem that WordPress will need to address. What if you use a small plugin that does one very useful task. Something very simple even. Someone can “buy” that plugin from the original creator and replace it with whatever they like during an update. In this case a lightweight well behaved anti spam plugin is now a huge bloated security suite that shouts at you in admin. I would never have considered installing this, but it crept in the back door.

This new untested plugin, will then show larger numbers of users (which previously was one of the metrics I used for judging a plugins usefulness, but will be very cautious of going forward) and ride on the back of it’s predecessor.

This is what has happened here.