In reply to Otto.
> ” If you think that it’s advertising for a plugin that you already have installed and running, well, that’s kind of a unique view of “advertising” you have there.”

So, if you maintain 20 plugins, and decide to roll the source of the other 19 into every one of those 20 plugins in your next update, you can now “advertise” the other 19 plugins all over the WP dashboard, but it’s now no longer counted “advertising”…. it’s just helpfully informing the users of what they already had installed.

That’s an absurd outcome. Whether intentional or not, the end result is that JetPack abuses its position as an “all-in-one” plugin to give itself an unfair advantage. The justification being given is playing semantics.