▲ -27 ▼ Just got a popup ad in Linux (sopuli.xyz) submitted 9 months ago by Simulation6@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@sopuli.xyz 13 comments fedilink hide all child comments Gnome needs your support with a donate button. How is this any different then the shit that Microsoft is pulling? This was on Fedora 43, BTW.
[+] de_lancre@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Slacker@mastodontech.de 6 points 9 months ago (1 child) @de_lancre I call it a "donation reminder or notification" like here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge/_requests/432 and here https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/274 is it nagware or interruptive? maybe... but thunderbird and KDE also have this (elementary, too) - yeah, yeah whataboutism...fundraising banners are everywhere (like on wiki). I can deal with this lol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz [S] -2 points 9 months ago I am not attacking the Gnome team. I think it is important to acknowledge that sometimes popup ads are understandable. It’s a matter of perspective sometimes and sometimes (looking at you Microsoft) the company is just being abusive assholes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Slacker@mastodontech.de 6 points 9 months ago (1 child) @de_lancre I call it a "donation reminder or notification" like here https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge/_requests/432 and here https://gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/os-mockups/-/issues/274 is it nagware or interruptive? maybe... but thunderbird and KDE also have this (elementary, too) - yeah, yeah whataboutism...fundraising banners are everywhere (like on wiki). I can deal with this lol. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz [S] -2 points 9 months ago I am not attacking the Gnome team. I think it is important to acknowledge that sometimes popup ads are understandable. It’s a matter of perspective sometimes and sometimes (looking at you Microsoft) the company is just being abusive assholes. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz [S] -2 points 9 months ago I am not attacking the Gnome team. I think it is important to acknowledge that sometimes popup ads are understandable. It’s a matter of perspective sometimes and sometimes (looking at you Microsoft) the company is just being abusive assholes. permalink fedilink source parent