Ads and open source. Is it possible to see them together?

  • Aux@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Firefox. Every update you see some promotion of some of their services.

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      1 year ago

      Can you blame them though, they are the only option to chromeium and they are a corporation that needs money to thrive.

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        1 year ago

        Which they could get with no trouble if they wouldnt pay their CEO absurds ammounts. They need to be a cooperative.

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    1 year ago

    If the ads aren’t optional and opt-in like in Brave, people will just create an identical fork except for the ads code being removed.

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    1 year ago

    Vim. At launch, it includes an advertisement to help the poor children in Uganda.

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      1 year ago

      In the version of Vim that I am using (Vim 8.1), the “advertisement” appears to be randomly chosen between “Help poor children in Uganda!” and “Sponsor Vim development!”.

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    1 year ago

    Open source software don’t appreciate bloatware? I’m not sure why you asked this question.

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      1 year ago

      He’s probably curious about sustainable open source models. I’m curious about it too. How can we avoid another RedHat?