Just got a popup ad in Linux

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.

A billion dollar company using dark patterns and forcing ads on you on an 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"

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onlinepersona 26 points a year ago

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Fecundpossum 21 points a year ago

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.

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Simulation6 -19 points a year 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.

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harmbugler 1 point 10 months ago

They are quite different. GNOME are asking for money to fund development. Microsoft sell advertisements as part of a for-profit business model.

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Slacker 13 points a year ago

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

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de_lancre 2 points a year ago

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Slacker 7 points a year ago

@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/... 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.

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Simulation6 -2 points a year 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.

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vikingtons 3 points a year ago

for anyone getting caught up in this shallow 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.

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iii 1 point a year ago

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