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Cake day: February 21st, 2021
  • CHEF-KOCH@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ads may be coming to KDE, the popular Linux desktop
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    3 years ago

    I understand that you are upset, because annoying ads are always bad. However, I think if that is optional via opt-in it maybe, maybe can help smaller developers assuming the ads are well placed.

    I use Brave + ads enabled and I do not mind a small mini popup. Sometimes I see some news because of that which I reshare, so it actually helps me. What I want to say is, that when ads are well placed and not annoying or malwaretised I see not much issue to place them in an app as long it is not privacy invasive, I think that is the real challenge here. Because ads have a history of malwaretising. Brave fights this by filtering ads trough their proxy, there is a review for every new ad provider. I see here the issue with a normal unfiltered app, imagine your 8 years old kid gets a XXX ad or clicks on malware stuff.

    THAT is what I am worried about.

  • CHEF-KOCH@lemmy.mlOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ads may be coming to KDE, the popular Linux desktop
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    3 years ago

    Why, even FOSS needs support. See OBS Studio, Wikipedia etc. Without supports good projects go to waste.

    • Developers can decide to introduce it in their apps or not. I am sure not every QT developer will adopt this.
    • People will be able to opt-in, opt-out. I am pretty sure they provide us with an option.
    • Most people do not donate, so an additional income thing could help.
    • The other option would be crypto.

    We are not talking about MS who introduce ads in Explorer which need some ad-blocking, hosts or registry hacks. Linux is more transparent and there will be options to control this.

    Do I like it, nope. But it is better than alternatives to shutdown project because lack of funding or struggling to expand because only few people are willingly to donate.