• El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Are they asking for money or a subscription? Are they serving ads? Are they selling users’ data to third parties? If all the answers are no, then no, it’s not an ad.

    • agrammatic@feddit.deEnglish
      8·
      1 year ago

      Are they asking for money

      The text ends with an appeal to donate to KDE’s fund-raiser, so they are asking for money.

      Whether that makes it an advertisement and/or whether all advertisements are undesirable on a link-sharing board are independent questions. Personally, even if this is an advertisement by some reasonable definition, I did find it helpful enough and KDE got one conversion out of me because I downloaded one of their apps.