QT Press Announce
Update, got a response in my subreddit. Credit for this finding goes to this fine gentlemen.
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Just for anyone scrolling by, the article itself is clickbait. QT is not KDE and KDE uses the open source licensed variant of QT. They are also just giving the ability to easily put ads to applications in QT to give an easy way for developers to monetize their applications.
I truly don’t think KDE would be putting ads in their applications as they know the backlash would likely be huge and they might lose some userbase which in the Linux world is very hard to come by.
OP puts this in the edit of their post, but incase someone doesn’t read it there.