We really need to tackle the cancerous nature of "advertising" as a problem at the civilization level.

I didn't realize they were ads.... this is weird

But Apple must enshittify all Apple products because it increases shareholder value. Else an activist shareholder will arise and accuse Ternus of dereliction of duty.

True, it’s short-term profits, but that’s all that matters. Nowadays.

Comparing the Settings banner to the Start menu banner as seems a bit overblown. One you only see when you open settings, which is typically not daily or even necessarily weekly for most people; the other you see potentially up to hundreds of times a day, every day you that use your device. This article would have been a lot more meaningful if it had focused on the Maps app’s ads and the News app’s ads (by Taboola!), which do actively interfere with the quality of experience delivered and are enshittifying services provided, or the Game Center “try this other app” ads that float over other apps and can’t be disabled, in order to make the point that the badge ads were in fact the earliest harbinger of the slippery slope we always fear everything to be. Lacking any actual investment of effort along those lines, it reads more as wahmbulance chasing than meaningful news.

> Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy

When you have willingly agreed to live your cyber life exclusively in the inside a golden jail, don't complain when the COs decide to collectively abuse you.

I've suffered the iCloud ads for almost 2 years at this point. You can't dismiss it, or if I can... the badge only disappears for a day and then it's back. I wish I could turn off iCloud completely, I have no use for it and do not want it. It sometimes hijacks files that I wanted to keep local-only.

If it wasn’t broken I wouldn’t mind

It's a little disingenuous that I can't toggle notifications for Settings.app off in the Notifications section of Settings.

An article complaining about adds serving me add for their own service scrolling a page down.

Are you fucking kidding me