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That won't be Kodi anymore.
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I don't think that revenue generation is an objective of the Kodi dev team...
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2016-03-20, 21:15
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-20, 21:32 by madmax666.)
There is a scrolling bar on the home page but its rss news feed and can be disabled (confluence skin anyway)
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This would be a very effective means of making money, but given that we don't do ads anywhere else (home page, forum, etc.), I can't imagine we'd start within the application itself.
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How about on the download links?
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You could always run a pop-up once a year asking for donations like Wikipedia does. I don't really know how the XBMC Foundation is doing money wise... If they were dangerously low on funds I hope they would let us know.
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2016-03-21, 03:27
(This post was last modified: 2016-03-21, 03:30 by BobCratchett.)
The real difficulty comes from the fact that this is an open source script. Very soon, I suspect - should Team Kodi add such adverts to the official Source - that they would be removed from all BUT the source. My imagination is that this would add to the fallacy that those unofficial sources (which already includes a variety of sources that the end user might want, however illegal they may be in their locale, but also no adverts) compared to the official source, that - for those who don't know the true difference between unofficial sources and the official - and, let's not kid ourselves here, that's the majority - would just cause more confusion.
Be honest for a moment - if you were about to just use an open source project not based on the code it provides (which relies on actually examining the code - and that assumes that the code isn't obfuscated - which a lot is and, frankly, users don't even know let alone realise what that means for the code the addon can run!), but rather whether it provides adverts or not - would YOU go for the advert-enabled version, or not?
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I would stop using Kodi if it had any kinds of ads. Anonymous usage analytics I can live with, as long as they can be turned off.
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zag
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The Kodi Team would never allow adverts in our software, I think I can speak for the whole team on that one!
