Playing some Counter-Strike 2 and then a GNOME donation notification pops up π
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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Well, good work looking into it!
But uh... oh neat, there's a critical override behavior... for... effectively an advertisement... great.
Rather concerning to watch what appear to be a bunch of GNOME devs rationalize opening up a very likely exploitable spear phishing vector because 'donating to a non profit is good.'
Welp, if/when that gets rolled out, I am guessing somebody is going to make some kind of extension or script that turns that shit off.
Let's put things into perspective, it's a biyearly notification that sustains the entire gnome ecosystem, I'll remind you that the GNOME foundation pays for the hosting costs, the paperwork and sometimes even development for the GNOME project that includes dozens of apps, libraries and GTK.
This is just the first implementation that will get ironed out in the next few years, like making sure it doesn't pop up in full screen windows and if you read through the issue there will also be an opt out in the settings.