Bloatware that installs extra plugins!!

  • Avrom

    (@dividendninja)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    Bloatware! The worst upsell is when YOU PROACTIVELY INSTALL extra plugins on people’s sites without their permission. I don’t need Monster Insights, and I don’t need Broken Link checker. But you installed those plugins anyway when I installed AIOSEO. For that reason, we will never use your plugin on any sites we build for ourselves or our clients.

Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    Hi @dividendninja,

    Thanks for your honest review! I’m really sorry for the confusion here.

    The MonsterInsights or ?Broken Link Checker plugins are only installed when they’ve been selected in the All in One SEO Setup Wizard.

    There’s an option to install additional plugins that complement All in One SEO and help with the goals of optimizing sites for search engines.

    If you don’t require these plugins, then you can safely deactivate and delete them and they’ll not be installed or activated again unless you run the Setup Wizard and select those plugins again.

    We’re working to make this much clearer on the Setup Wizard so that you know which plugins are associated with the choices in the wizard.

    Again, I’m sorry for any issues this caused you.

    Thread Starter Avrom

    (@dividendninja)

    Hi Steve,
    Thanks for the reply back. That is incorrect… there are no options or text to indicate extra plugins are being installed. NOTHING. Or if it is, its the tiniest print no one can see. Basically, it is deceptive practice – plain and simple.

    More importantly, you shouldn’t be installing these plugins in the first place. It’s not my responsibility to uninstall them after the fact. The setup wizard is for installing a plugin a user chooses to install, not for several plugins they didn’t agree too. This is irresponsible practice and really needs to be reported to www.remarpro.com.

    Additionally we are going to remove, replace, and discontinue renewal of all your plugins across all our sites. That includes WP Forms and WP SMTP Pro etc.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Avrom.
Viewing 2 replies - 1 through 2 (of 2 total)
  • The topic ‘Bloatware that installs extra plugins!!’ is closed to new replies.