Another aggressive Elementor promo after update – [Elementor Website Builder – More than Just a Page Builder] Review

As a pagebuilder Elementor is certainly good, but IMO there’s better and if you need premium features you’ll find that an Elementor pro subscription is more aggressively priced than the competition. But I signed up for Elementor Pro a couple years ago because Elementor basic was bundled with the theme for my main site.

I’ve really come to despise the way Elementor has taken to inserting promos for new paid add-ons after some updates. I’m not talking about a banner announcing a new feature – that’s pretty common and I don’t mind that. But after today’s update I’m now seeing a “Generate with Elementor AI” promo by the Excerpt field in EVERY one of my posts. And “Edit with Elementor AI” on EVERY image attachment, with no way to disable the notifications in the settings.

A few months ago they did the same thing with their Image Optimizer (or whatever it was called) – after an update there was suddenly a promo for it EVERY TIME you went into the media library. They did get rid of that, but only after several people complained here.

If I am paying a company for the use of a product, there’s no justification for that company using my dashboard to relentlessly advertise completely unrelated products. It’s very invasive, and doing that repeatedly completely undermines trust – it makes you fearful of what they’re going to force on you after future updates. I canceled my Elementor Pro sub and will look into eliminating Elementor altogether or as much as possible from this site since I just learned (thanks to other posts here) that Elementor Pro features now become unusable after you stop paying for a sub.

As a small business, I can understand that Elementor is feeling pressure to grow. But they need to understand that customers rightly resent paying for a product that uses their websites used for FREE advertisement.