Ads for premium archive upgrades

question
1

I’m subscribing to Premium Newsblur yet it seems the app is set up in a way to try to convince me to upgrade to premium archive. There’s ads for premium archive in almost every menu. I’m already paying for this I don’t want to see further ads to convince me to pay even more for it. It gets in the way of actually using the app. I’ve been thinking about moving away and looking into alternatives due to it. Is there a way to decrease/remove this?

2

Glad to hear you’re a subscriber to NewsBlur Premium! There’s two solutions for this:

  1. You upgrade. The price of NewsBlur has risen to $99/year, and it still costs less than the two main competitors. Running NewsBlur costs a lot more than it used to, and the $99/year tier reflects the value you’re getting. These badges are doing their job by reminding you that an upgrade is available.
  2. You hide the premium archive badges with custom css (only available to premium subscribers under Preferences → Custom Styling):
.NB-archive-badge,
.NB-archive-upgrade-prompt {
    display: none;
}
3

Ok I gave this some more thought and have an idea for how to make the ads less flashy but overall more effective. I’ll noodle on it and attempt to build that soon.

4

The response doesn’t seem in interest of the customer. I’m troubled because of ads in a service I already paid for and the first response to this shouldn’t be “you should upgrade”.

My account just got annually renewed about 10 days ago. Is it possible to request a refund?

5

Happy to offer you a refund but you subscribed with Android, which means you’ll need to request the refund from Google directly.

6

I did and google told me I should contact the developer directly..