QT Press Announce
Update, got a response in my subreddit. Credit for this finding goes to this fine gentlemen.
this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2022
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This is a Qt module. KDE has nothing to do with it and there is pretty much no way they would ever use it.
I like to think that they wouldn't dare. The vast majority of KDE's users care a lot about open source and privacy. The instant KDE starts doing this, someone will fork their codebase and cut out the ads module. If they go proprietary, their community developers will move on to forks, like what happened with MySql and OpenOffice.
Absolutely nothing's stopping Linux distros from putting ads in their OS now. There are already software for that. So it's unlikely the major ones will do it even if they could. And those who do will be shunned by the Linux community, as they should be.