Got an e-mail today from Jetpack that they have determined this site to be commercial in nature and that I had 5 days to upgrade to a business license! No idea how they got to that conclusion because, reading their own definition on their own site, the site does not match any of the things stipulated there.

I googled and this seems to be happening to a lot of people! Probably an automatic algorithm marking scores of random sites as commercial in hopes that the webmasters don’t investigate & complain and just pay like good little lambs so they can make money. 

No matter. I deleted Jetpack pretty much immediately, and then started looking what alternatives I could find. I’d been thinking on switching to something less bloated than Jetpack, and hopefully to a simpler stats plugin for ages anyway but just couldn’t be bothered until now! Also deleted Jetpack from https://skeins.so-obsessed.com (although that site wasn’t marked as commercial as yet) and switched another plugin there too!

Jetpack used to be really good but that was like 10-12 years ago but it’s gotten more and more bloated over time. Such a shame they’re now either using a malfunctioning algorithm or are trying to fleece people.