KDE-Powering Qt’s New Framework Lets Developers Bring Ads Into Their Apps
“Qt, the framework that powers the KDE desktop, is announcing support for ads in client-side applications,” reports Neowin:
This means that application developers will now be able to serve ads in traditional desktop applications…. Windows users have been dealing with this in Metro UI apps since Windows 8 and it’s something tha … ⌘ Read more
So… Not even Open Source Linux Desktop Environments such as KDE are not immune from this bullshit model of “steal all your data” ?! 🤦♂️ Farrk me 😳
@eldersnake@we.loveprivacy.club I honestly cannot understand this trend in the industry that now seems to be poisoning the open source community, it’s just madness. 🤦♂️ Why the fuck would anyone want to use an open source product of any kind if the developers decided to shove ads in their users face?! Wait didn’t that happens recently with Audacity, then the community started forking it? 😂
@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yes but but KDE that is built atop QT isn’t though right? 🤔 (been a while since I’ve been in the Linux on Desktop ecosystem 😅)
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I’ll be sure to bring plenty of 🍿 for the inevitable show 😂