It might be an issue with how macOS handles applications that changed their preferences filenames. It might be that for some reason it tries to load settings from previous files. So let's test the following:

First, delete all QTads versions you currently have and empty the trash. Then open a terminal and execute the following command:

for f in $(find ~/Library/Preferences -iname "*qtads*"); do defaults delete $(basename "$f" .plist); done

It might print "domain not found" for some entries, but that's fine. What this command does is clear the settings in all preference files created by QTads.

Then, physically delete all QTads preference files with:

find ~/Library/Preferences -iname "*qtads*" -exec rm '{}' \;

Confirm that they have been deleted with:

find ~/Library/Preferences -iname "*qtads*"

That command should print nothing.

At this point, reboot. Do a full reboot, not some kind of suspend/resume.

After macOS has rebooted, confirm again that the preference files are gone:

find ~/Library/Preferences -iname "*qtads*"

That command should still print nothing.

Finally, download the final release version of QTads from here:

https://realnc.github.io/qtads/#downloads

Start it, change the update check setting to "never". quit and start it again. Does the problem still occur?

Unwanted dialog/update prefs #12

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