boost

I personally didn't see it as an ad. But it's hard not to question it when you see the before and after: https://github.com/laravel/boost/pull/758/changes/589394c44a... Thats going to make any LLM agent change from "cool, we can deploy this anywhere" to "it only works on this one specific paid service thats overkill and more expensive for basically everyone" - its deceptive more than anything.

I agree that there's a strong need for ad blockers nowadays. I also use uBlock Origin on all my browsers. But I'm not sure if a world that is completely devoid of advertising would... work. Advertising (in some form) is a necessary evil, I think. Any business needs customers to make revenue and, well, exist. So any business needs to have some way to make themselves known to potential customers. In the case of Laravel, they offer an open source framework completely for free, and pay for the development man hours through their commercial offerings, e.g. Laravel Cloud. That commercial offering is not bad: they offer a very smooth way to deploy your Laravel project. In order for the offering to make any revenue, potential customers need to know that it exists, at least. They're still free to choose whether they want to use that commercial off

Here's the change if anyone is interested: https://github.com/laravel/boost/pull/758/changes/589394c44a... For me it is not the right move, one thing is letting users know Laravel Cloud is an option and another one is removing any alternative from the text