Was wondering why "ads" was quoted. I guess because it's their own products and services?
The ‘ads’ in question appear in the Settings app in iOS. They can be found near the top of the iPhone’s display and promote several products to the user, including paid-for iCloud+ storage, free trials for services like Apple Music and Apple TV, and the AppleCare+ extended warranty.
I bought a Xiami phone a couple months ago and this shit have ads in sone apps like the file explorer and others like that. Thankfully is still not closed to install my own apps and replace all that ad infested apps with f-droid alternatives.
Xiaomi allows to unlock the bootloader and then you can install a free Android. Depends on model, of course. Also requires account at Xiaomi, installing some Windows software and waiting 144 hours for the unlock to take effect.
No one is safe from the enshittification!
"Wouldn't ever be me," I think smugly, opening the menu on my FOSS Firefox browser and being greeted with...
Is this with iOS 27? I have not updated to it and it seems I will not at all.
I’ll copy my comment to another post with a similar/same article:
Definitely not new and the way the articles headlined I thought there was some sort of ad in iOS that was blatant that I hadn’t noticed.
Using the same language as the article (not very accurate) “iOS users don’t use the settings app and won’t see ads.”
Just to be clear for those that wooshed; people do go into settings but it’s not like every user is staring at the settings app everyday. The ads also aren’t very intrusive, so comparing them to the Windows start menu ads, which the article does, is ridiculous.
In summary; ads are bad and crap sensationalist reporting is also bad.
all 6 comments