On Thu, 20 Jan 2022, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Read this:
>
> https://www.neowin.net/news/ads-may-be-coming-to-kde-the-popular-linux-desktop/
>
Yes read it. Qt adding support for ADS. Any Open Source KDE/Qt program that
did that would have the code that did it removed by debian straight away -
I'm pretty sure. So will devuan see any crud? If you use closed source
software you are on you own - caveat emptor etc.
So why the fuss?
> LOL, I removed every bit of KDE, its executables and libraries, in
> 2012. Mostly for the same reasons I refuse to host systemd. Now comes
> the possibility of ads on KDE applications.
>
> But it's even worse, because Qt is doing it, so non-KDE apps might be
> involved, including the LXQt I've recommended as an alternative to
> the deprecated LXDE.
>
> SteveT
>
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