Option to remove ad on bunq.me page

Samzoiets

Joël van Daalen As far as I recall it, the bunq.me page is a key feature of bunq, which I pay for.

Th costs of maintaining this page are deemed to be included in my subscription fee, so why would bunq charge a third party (the advertiser) for this?

I would understand it whem bunq offers space to advertise and the user would get the proceedings, but I guess you don't benefit of the add.

JvD00

Sam 🇳🇱🇬🇧 Thanks for your opinion, I think you make a strong point about it being a key feature of bunq for which you pay.

One thing I need to clarify is that the 'ad' is a bunq referral link, the one you can also share with your friends. You will get €10 if someone signs up using that link. Also, there is no third party involved as bunq is the owner of the ad.

I personally think this should be an option (especially for business users) and not be forced.

Samzoiets

Joël van Daalen Ah, it makes a huge difference who the advertiser is...

Still; when I use a service of a bank, I would like the bank to refrain from advertising too. The should suffice with a mere link to their website.

yannickdoteu

At least an opt-out, especially for business users, would be much appreciated

Sander

I had completely missed it, but I don't really like it either (on my personal page). I would also like to see this as opt in. Or after the payment has been completed; then you've seen the entire flow, then it would make more sense for me to have such a link showing along the lines of "want to have such a payment experience yourself? Click here..". 🙂

Reizeboss

I checked our business bunq.me page. And the referral link isn’t mentioned there. Only a ‘what is bunq.me’ link to a FAQ page.

On my personal page there is a referral link. But that’s fine in my opinion.

Bastiaan

I think it only shows this referral text if you have created a personalised invite link in the bunq app.

JvD00

Bastiaan That could be true, indeed. But once a referral link is created, you don't have an option to delete the link again.

Delano

Bastiaan Don't think so, I haven't created a referral link and it does show it on my bunq.me page as well...

Also why does that Invite your friends to bunq button have to be so big on my accounts page?

Petervdv

Joël van Daalen Under profile -> bunq.me, you can deactivate the link. Maybe that gives the same result?

JvD00

Petervdv 🏳️‍🌈 Yes, that will completely deactivate the bunq.me page. Or do you mean something else😄

Petervdv

Joël van Daalen O wait yeah, you were talking about the referral link, not the entire bunq.me link. Never mind 😁

DaveFlash

hmmm.... strange they've added this without any notification to the user. this comes as a complete surprise to me, and yeah I know bunq likes to surprise us with features, but i'm not so sure this is the right way

timvisee

Would like an opt-out feature as well. A toggle on the bunq.me link settings page would be perfect.

pbruins84

Délano I remember i could swipe the button on the accounts page away.

Delano

Peter B Wow that was counterintuitive but worked, nice :)

JvD00

No updates on this yet... Seems like a really bad move to just implement something like that without letting the user know and not have an option to remove it.

JohnDo

I can understand why bunq 🌈 would place such add. Sounds like a win-win for both bunq 🌈 and the user right?

But to be honest, I would like to be in controle of such things. And it feel a tiny bit as begging. Especially if it is a business bunqme.

So High Five 👐🏼 for removing this or by giving the user an option.

JvD00

I hate to have to bring this up again, but I feel it’s quite important.

For those who didn’t read the original post: A while ago bunq placed referral ads on all bunq.me pages, without informing their users about is. I don’t mind the referral ads being there on my personal account, but on my business account they’re also visible. That looks kind of cheap to clients who pay me via the bunq.me page, and to me it seems like kind of a desperate marketing technique for one of the most expensive banks I know. I love using bunq, but this just doesn’t seem right.

Please upvote this post if you would like a switch to disable the ad on your pages.

Sander

Joël van Daalen make sure to submit your feedback via ideas@bunq.com, that arrives directly at the Product team and is the current feedback channel used by bunq, 😁👍