• 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.

      • @9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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        192 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

      • @Cris16228@lemmy.today
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        182 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.

        • @conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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          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.

          • @Cris16228@lemmy.today
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            152 months ago

            Don’t use KDE then🤷‍♂️

            Those assholes! They should make an OS for free!!! How dare they ask for support?!?!

            No one forces you to support them, if it’s so annoying just disable it. I wonder if makes you happy work for someone for free… Hope it will happen to you so you’ll understand how bad it is :)

            Cya

          • Sunny' 🌻
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            32 months ago

            That’s an interesting logic. You do realise that at least 50% of the groceries in your local store are likely to have been advertised somewhere. Guess you should stop buying groceries too…

      • @orsetto@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        92 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.

        • 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.