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I work in SaaS dude, have for years, I know how Freemium works. However - this isn't "EN advertising". It's a pop-up telling you to update the app to the newest version- not to upgrade to a full subscription. Is there a misunderstanding at play here? Is that why you keep telling people that upgrading will solve it? Would it even, in that case? Honestly, I'd understand a "money pls" pop-up more than this nonsense. It's a focus pull to say "hey there's a new version available pls update to it", when it's not urgent.

Honestly, this is rude. In a forum you reach other users - who may have found a workaround for the issue. So it's not like it's a useless action to take. But you seem to be in every thread about this yelling at people to subscribe or shut up like some kind of weird Evernote stan instead of a helpful user of a software that offers a free option, so presumably you already know this and just don't care. For now, I'm closing Evernote except when I actually need it so it stops doing this. I have no issue with it asking me to update! It's just the focus-stealing that's the problem. I use other free versions of software that ask me to update relatively frequently, but if I have the app minimized, it doesn't maximize it onto my screen and make me wait for it to load so I can tell it to do or not do the update. The behavior is janky from a UX perspective and that's fair to say- because again, it's free, it's not like we've pirated it. It's just the free option, and it didn't always work that way, so it's fair to point out that it sucks that it does now.

This is incredibly frustrating! And all I can do is complain here because I don't have a paid account. Refreshing the page eventually worked but wow that was a pain, and now I don't really trust it.