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Honestly... this isnt the first time this has happened either. Been a paying customer for a long time now, and occasionally I get these upgrade buttons, which I am hoping are just bugs, as otherwise it would be very weird as I cannot upgrade to anything higher than Unlimited.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I remember seeing something on Reddit a while back (well before the API fiasco) that this was a bug. Hopefully that is the case here as well.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How many times can they pretend this is a "bug"? They inject ads into my emails, regardless of whether I'm a paying user. And I can't remove them from my entire account, I have to do it on a device-by-device basis...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

These are two separate issues. I can easily imagine that this is a bug, and one with no impact whatsoever, so I can see why it hasn't been addressed with an urgent hotfix. There is no business value in offering an already paying user to upgrade.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

These are two separate issues.

No, they're the same issue. Both are annoying solicitations forced on paying users.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I’ve personally never had this issue (I’ve been a paid user for the last 2 years). Like another commenter said, as annoying as it is, it’s not a super urgent bug. It doesn’t break anything or affect the functionality so it will take longer to get a fix.

[–] BuckenBerry 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Just add a rule to remove the ##.button-promotion--icon-gradient element in uBlock Origin

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Do you know if you could do something similar with something like Ferdium?

[–] Treczoks 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I don't know Proton, but if you are already in the highest subscriber tier, why the f do you still get ads?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Proton family is one step above unlimited, then there's proton visionary

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

possibly because there's higher tiers such as proton family and proton visionary