It's obviously not that. The snark isn't appropriate here.
Bad faith practices / dark patterns are obnoxious, period.
These apps present themselves as free and make a point of putting this message front and center. Then nag you incessantly and quietly remove feature to push people to upgrade.
This is dishonest, counterproductive and simply lead to bad reviews and the apps being uninstalled.
The marketing is obviously an attempt to leverage the good faith around OSS and then does a full 180.
> The marketing is obviously an attempt to leverage the good faith around OSS and then does a full 180.
The level of entitlement here is staggering: source is available. Go modify it yourself and build it yourself. Oh, right, you don't want to because it is below your pay rate but you want others to do it for free.
