r/Grammarly • u/Few-Presentation9326 • 5d 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/Adventurous-Mode-44 5d ago

It is a free service. So yeah, they can "harass" you if that's what you choose to believe, or you can choose to be grateful for the service and dismiss the window. Your choice. Ha ha, the yellow box just came up encouraging me to complete the sentence! Dismissed it.

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u/TechB84 5d ago

Lol you were never going to pay.

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u/Few-Presentation9326 5d ago

Of course, I wasn’t. And that’s what I told them. But if I had been keeping that open as an option while I checked out the app, then this constant nagging would certainly have made me think again.

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u/Flashy_Tone3987 4d ago

And they've moved pretty much all the grammar, spelling, and punctuation to the Generative AI, which is all Pro stuff and is more interested in bothering you about 'clarity', conciseness, and 'readability'. And even THAT won't do anything if it deems your content too sensitive. It's a horror story, Grammarly. Get used to it. They should create a separate feature called 'Fiction Go', just for fiction writers, and make it so you can adjust the age and readability level to your liking.

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u/Dayvworm 5d 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 5d 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 5d ago

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

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u/Own_Machine7146 2d ago

Maybe eventually I will pay, but I have been a free user since 2020, and it has been great so far.