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> I ignore the junk. This is the price you have to pay when you get something for free.

clearly it isn’t, or the author wouldn’t have been able to move to a free alternative without any junk to ignore.

I probably didn't express myself sufficiently clearly. I'm pleased that the author has moved from a Web app to local, open source apps. Definitely a good move, particularly on mobile. What I don't get is going to the effort of writing a blog post about the annoyance of using the free tier of a service provided by a commercial business. That tier is there to let people try the service. It's not surprising that the experience isn't friction-free: it's not meant to be.

> It's not surprising that the experience isn't friction-free: it's not meant to be.

This is an argument for the intentional creation of bad software.

Or for not having free tiers.

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