Free plan is only allowed on non-commercial sites?

  • Resolved akiraanastasia

    (@akiraanastasia)


    1 year, 10 months ago

    Hi team, i got this email: `You’re currently using Akismet for free, but the free plan is only allowed on non-commercial sites.

    You are displaying ads on your site, so it does not qualify as non-commercial.

    To continue using Akismet, please upgrade to the $10/month Plus plan.

    If you continue using the free plan, your account will be suspended.`

    So, its not free anymore? Just because we use Adsense?

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  • Plugin Support csonnek

    (@csonnek)

    Happiness Rocketeer 🚀

    1 year, 10 months ago

    @akiraanastasia – That has always been our policy.

    However, with a large number of accounts using free keys on commercial sites, we’ve recently started enforcing that policy. If your site has advertising or affiliate links, sells products or services, solicits donations or sponsorships, or is in any way related to a business or educational organization – your site is considered commercial. Per our documentation and Terms of Service, we can suspend sites for noncompliance with those terms.

    – https://docs.akismet.com/getting-started/free-or-paid/
    – https://akismet.com/tos/

    If you like, you can give us your site URL and we can more accurately advise why your site was flagged as commercial.

    I hope that clarifies things.

    Thread Starter akiraanastasia

    (@akiraanastasia)

    1 year, 10 months ago

    May be I will just uninstall plugin and find alternative 😳🙁

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