Prisma language server update adds in-editor advertisements

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Opened my editor this morning to be greeted by a notification being abused to show an advertisement for Prisma's paid services.

I get it, money is no longer free and VCs want returns, so we've all gotta make a buck, but this is a breach of trust.

I really hate the idea that we're going to need adblock for our editors…

Not to mention, the Prisma library itself is one of our biggest regrets. They support them now, but not until some version 5.* did it even support native SQL joins. Extendability is also a nightmare.

I'd think twice about falling for the great marketing around it.

From the PR where this was discussed: https://github.com/prisma/language-tools/pull/1716

> Do [...] Respect the user's attention by only sending notifications when absolutely necessary

> Do [...] Add a Do not show again option for every notification

> Don't [...] Use for promotion

janpio@, the self-proclaimed Senior Product Manager @ Prisma, then locks onto the "Do not show again" section of the VSCode guidelines

> our default behavior, to only show the notification once

Seemingly ignoring the two other glaring guidelines informing them that this is a bad idea. Cognitive dissonance at its finest.

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