Qt Launches Digital Advertising Platform To Integrate Ads Into App UIs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Qt Launches Digital Advertising Platform To Integrate Ads Into App UIs

The Qt Company this morning announced Qt Digital Advertising 1.0 as its new ad platform that allows for developers to easily integrate advertising campaigns into Qt-based, cross-platform applications...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Qt-Digital-Advertising-1.0

[Anux]

Not sure if I like this. Does it include a tracking mechanism?

[ddriver]

A few years from now, they will have nft-s as well.

[uid313]

Not sure if I like this. Does it include a tracking mechanism?

Me neither, but without this, the approach taken by developers would probably be to embed a Qt WebView component which might be worse.

[HaikuUser01234]

How about we all stop allowing ads in our faces 24/7

Jesus

[Serafean]

Not sure if I like this. Does it include a tracking mechanism?

The fact that it is a Qt module is good: creating a dummy noop module and LD_PRELOADing it into misbehaving apps is a very easy hack. The other variant being dissecting the binary.
Its a module, a tool. Don't use it.

tbh what killed Qt for me is QML. Seemed like a good idea. I don't think it is.

[mirmirmir]

it's a great way for boost development on KDE

[M@GOid]

Ads on desktop apps? Pfff, they will never get me on the terminal.

Oh wait: https://www.zdnet.com/article/npm-bans-terminal-ads/

[waitman]

I remember when Quickbooks started displaying ads in their Desktop app. Thats the day I stopped using Quickbooks.

[Smurphy]

How about we all stop allowing ads in our faces 24/7

Jesus

Using RPZ lists as I already do. Only stops about 95% of ads, but it works.
What we will definitely need to address as community, is DoH ... because that will give control on host & domains to whoever owns the web-site.
And that, I cannot accept.