To keep it simple: people will HATE you.


A patch will be made to remove the ad or an adblock-type add-on will be created (if the application is even worth it). Failing that the functions will be cloned.

Sabayon implemented an advertisement space in one of their GUI package managers, Spritz (see the bottom of this; I was furious back when I was using Sabayon and noticed this)

Stick with ads on your personal download homepage (also keep mind that people will expect it to be in the extras repository and thus don't count page views). Even then - adblock, eh?