This kind of spam is unwelcome, unwanted and unacceptable to me.
I switched away from Windows over (among other things) ads in start menu.
Ads in CLI logs are also not at all OK to me.
> It was slightly cheeky to use that change to also give people a heads-up of new capabilities
No, it was a boring spam and marketing.
> For example, if we have another heartbleed, we will use this mechanism to make CLI users aware of it.
The complain is not about mechanism, it is about abusing it. Though this outcome was quite obvious risk of adding this new ad vector and new ad attack surface.
This kind of spam is unwelcome, unwanted and unacceptable to me.
I switched away from Windows over (among other things) ads in start menu.
Ads in CLI logs are also not at all OK to me.
> It was slightly cheeky to use that change to also give people a heads-up of new capabilities
No, it was a boring spam and marketing.
> For example, if we have another heartbleed, we will use this mechanism to make CLI users aware of it.
The complain is not about mechanism, it is about abusing it. Though this outcome was quite obvious risk of adding this new ad vector and new ad attack surface.