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Pluralistic: The antitrust case against Apple (pluralistic.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Just going to mention, I never see ads directly from apple on my apple devices. As long as you're inside Apple apps, there are no ads.

Outside sources like websites etc obviously may have adverts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Do these persist through disabling notifications for tv+?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Settings > Notifications > TV

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hardly adverts to be honest, in fact you could argue the last one is actually a good practice rather than just not telling you and letting you be charged.

As for the first two you can turn notifications off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The last one isn't warning you that your trial is running out. It's warning you that if you don't start your 90 day trial soon, you will "miss out" and only be able to sign up for a shorter free trial period.

And yes, I'm aware you can disable them. My point though was that Apple definitely does do ads. Oh and by the way if a third party developer were to use notifications like those three? They'd risk having their developer account banned. It's a blatant violation of Apple's developer agreement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why is the fact that there are no ads in Apple apps relevant to this post? None of this will stop you from using Apple apps.

Allowing people to use non-Apple apps won't force people to not use Apple apps. People will only use non-Apple apps if they think it's doing something better than Apple apps. If, as you say, Apple apps are the best, then people will use them even if Apple allows competitors into the iOS market. I do not see a single way this decision hurts any consumers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I didn't say Apple apps are the best though? Nor did I say this decision hurts consumers.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can also turn off personalized ads for the App Store, Apple News, and Stocks: https://support.apple.com/en-us/105131

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That doesn't disable ads, it just means the ads won't be "personalized".

For example you'll see general interest news ads, instead of ads targeted at the things you are interested in.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I know. Never said different.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Which to be fair is the issue, the issue isn't the ads it's the tracking. That can be disabled without much work.