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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.kde.social/post/10175
#Travel season is here! Let KDE take you to the best spots, most beautiful #beaches, or even #Akademy2023: Check out the new "KDE for #Travellers" guide and... Bon Voyage ๐โ๏ธ๐๏ธ๐ข๐๏ธ๐!
Are they asking for money or a subscription? Are they serving ads? Are they selling users' data to third parties? If all the answers are no, then no, it's not an ad.
The text ends with an appeal to donate to KDE's fund-raiser, so they are asking for money.
Whether that makes it an advertisement and/or whether all advertisements are undesirable on a link-sharing board are independent questions. Personally, even if this is an advertisement by some reasonable definition, I did find it helpful enough and KDE got one conversion out of me because I downloaded one of their apps.