Said It Here

Why are new platform sales features turned on by default?

Platforms automatically opt stores into new AI sales and chat integrations, forcing owners to manually search for and disable each setting. This opt-out approach leaves sellers dealing with hidden competition, unpaid use of their digital images, and the risk of bad reviews from poor automated buyer experiences.

Overview
People affected4 accounts across 2 forums
Workarounds found4 items attempted
Community agreement8 total upvotes

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

  • This comes up 84.5× more often in r/Etsy than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

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    Manually turning off the individual feature buttons
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  2. 2
    Opting out of automated testing programs
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  3. 3
    Managing digital file licensing terms for personal use
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  4. 4
    Expressing concerns and debating platform terms in community forums
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In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.

r/Etsy3 people · September 2026

“I'm not sure what happens if the POD turns out badly and the buyer leaves the seller a low review because of it.”source ↗

18_bees_18 · r/Etsy · 8 upvotes

“Besides the quality issue you raised, Etsy does not seem to cover "who gets paid". They say there is no cost to the seller, but if they are using one of my digital images, I should be compensated.”source ↗

PlasticSecret9185 · r/Etsy · 1 upvotes

“Super cool to have the hosting site also become the competition. 🫠”source ↗

SuperTFAB · r/Etsy · 1 upvotes
r/shopify1 person · September 2026

“Anyone else annoyed that we got an email saying your shop now selling on the stupid Meta AI?”source ↗

“I had already turned off the others, but Meta was a whole separate button! I want the option to opt in, not to have to work to opt out.”source ↗

blessyourheart10 · r/shopify · 4 upvotes

Where this came up

r/Etsyr/shopifydigital productsecommerceplatform changesprivacyshopify

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