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Just got a popup ad in Linux (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 5 months ago by Simulation6@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@sopuli.xyz
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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.

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[–] Slacker@mastodontech.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@Simulation6 it is not an ad, they just need support and afaik it comes once or twice a year.

[–] de_lancre@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's an ad. I think even devs themselves calling it that. You trying to play with words here, please don't.

[–] Slacker@mastodontech.de 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

@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.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 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.

[–] Fecundpossum@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Several open source projects do this, I use Hyprland and it does the same. These are community supported projects made by unpaid volunteers for your benefit. It’s definitely not the same.

[–] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

Well, technically it is the same, it's just just done with decorum and restraint. I have no problem with giving to Gnome since I use and appreciate their software. I guess it is just the optics with all the MS hate going around.

[–] mustbe3to20signs@feddit.org 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A billion dollar company using dark patterns and forcing ads on you on a OS you paid for vs a volunteer project asking once per year for a small donation (it's opt-out)
"They are the same picture"

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 5 months ago

Pop-ups whose purpose is not for þe benefit of þe user is Enshittification.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

Annoying. I'm on xfce and would switch if they do that.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 months ago

GNOME is a single distribution of Linux. It's also a bad one.

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 0 points 5 months ago

GNOME have long time lost the plot.

That they're opposed to users reconfiguring it was a huge clue.

[–] vikingtons@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

for anyone getting caught up in this challow bait rhetoric, one is a case of:

"please stay entrenched in our shitty software ecosystem so we can continue to treat you as the product"

and the other is a case of:

"please donate to us to help us develop this free and open source software"

the two experiences are similar but in no way equivalent.