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What are some famous open source apps with ads? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by zephyr@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] Aux@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sandbag@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

[–] PoorPocketsMcNewHold@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years ago

Nobody blamed them here, as far i read.

[–] gary_host_laptop@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Aux@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Who blamed them? How did you even come up with such response?

[–] curiosityLynx@kglitch.social 12 points 2 years 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.

[–] raubarno@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] citytree@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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!".

[–] 0uterzenith@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Brave browser, based on chromium has an ad reward program that you have to opt-in

[–] Kovu@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

JDownloader but you can remove them

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Brave is going through a process of feature-bloat, which I equate to advertisements

[–] GlitzyArmrest@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's been bloated ever since they added their stupid cryptoscam ads to it.

[–] MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

I suppose they have to make money somehow

[–] biddy@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

Brave has always had advertisments for their crypto scheme

[–] lemminer@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

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

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