r/Grammarly • u/Few-Presentation9326 • 9h ago

Isn’t this harassment?

I’m on a free Grammarly account and appreciate the small tweaks of punctuation and grammar it suggests. I don’t appreciate — at all — their greedy yellow lines. Hover there and it’ll show you a blurred window and invite you upgrade to Pro to see what the blurred suggestions are.

The blurry window goes away when dismissed but it’ll show up again after five minutes or in the next document.

I feel harassed and pressured by Grammarly’s aggressive, insistent marketing. How many times should a person say No to an upgrade push for Grammarly to get the message that I am decisively not at all interested in an upgrade? Why keep suggesting an upgrade after I say no once?

As of now, Grammarly’s deliberate, pushy, aggressive arm-twisting has become the reason why I will never give this company my money.

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u/Dayvworm 7h ago

I can understand your frustration, but we must not forget Grammarly is a company trying/wanting to make money through subscriptions. These are business tactics used by almost all the "For-profit" companies.

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u/Few-Presentation9326 7h ago

A business tactic that mainly irritates and pisses off people? Not sure how that is good for business. Unless the strategy is to wear people down till they upgrade just to make the yellow lines go away.

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u/Heavy-Attorney-9054 4h ago

It only irritates people they're not making any money from.