• orsetto@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    Not an ad. No one is trying to sell you anything.

    (If you get the notification) you’re already using their product.

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      3 months ago

      Yes, it is an ad. Any call to action is an ad.

      And its mere presence will ensure I don’t give them any more money. The core concept of inserting any ad in an OS is not behavior I am willing to reward.

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        3 months ago

        This is not an OS behaviour. KDE is a desktop environment.

        If it bothers you so much, remove the DE and use the command line, full time

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        3 months ago

        So, asking you to VOLUNTARILY donate IF YOU WANT to with a pop-up you can simply ignore and/or disable is advertising? I don’t understand… I mean, they give you a product for free, full of good features and updated regularly, and the moment they ask you to donate, again, IF YOU WANT to, it’s considered advertising…

        You’re so sad, dude.

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          3 months ago

          Yes. It is literally impossible for an organization asking for money not to be an ad.

          And yes, showing me a single ad once means I never give them money again. I am not OK with ads.

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        3 months ago

        Ads try to sell you something, there is no “call to action”. Here, there is nothing to sell, so by definition it’s not an ad.

        They are just asking you if you’d like to help them in providing you the product you’re already using.

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          3 months ago

          You pretty clearly don’t know what a call to action is, or an ad is, because “please give money” is very obviously a call to action, and many ads make no effort whatsoever to sell any product.