In reply to Jesse.

Jesse, I can attest to a strong sense of a double standard in play. JetPack, WooCommerce, Yoast all get special treatment from what I've seen. It will be denied of course but I've watched it first hand.

What's worse is when the big guys do this, this sets the standard for the whole platform. I'm tired of the "too big to fail" line being used with the whales of the commercial plugins.

Samuel and Mika should simply kick the whales out until they bring their promotional wizardry in line with the spirit of WordPress (an open source free publishing platform). Crippling advertising is not free. That's commercial TV where a half hour is not 30 minutes but 20 minutes content and 10 minutes advertising.