Apple barely does it and only for their products. I agree with you that that’s already too much and too annoying but that’s an order of magnitude less than Microsoft who advertise their products pretty aggressively AND ALSO are advertising for whoever gave them money too.

Ubuntu I didn’t use it for years, there are tons of other distributions that I prefer now but last time I checked, there was a removable default shortcut to amazon. That’s an awful symbol, if you ask me, to associate Ubuntu and its meaning to Amazon but it’s nothing when compared to Apple or Microsoft (dare I say Google) behaviors.

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royskee 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Apple barely does it and only for their products.

With the recent notable exception of the F1 movie advertisement that arrived as a notification from the Wallet app. https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-erod...

I disabled Wallet notifications immediately :-(

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nrb 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Obviously not defending it, but isn’t the F1 movie produced by Apple?

	▲	LoganDark 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Yes. There's still an entire drama about how inappropriate it is for the Wallet app to advertise a movie.

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kergonath 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Yes. And the debacle was so loud because it does not happen generally (I’d have to go back to the U2 album thing to find something comparable).

They nag too much about their services, though. I don’t fucking want Fitness whatever or News thing, I would like the OS to stop putting a red dot in my settings. But anyway that’s not as brain dead as what I’ve seen on Windows.

	▲	rkomorn 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I agree. Not getting stuff pitched to you constantly by everyone is such an unending exercise of updating preferences, "unsubscribing", rejecting permissions requests, etc. It feels almost futile. Not to mention the "ask again later..." option having replaced the flat out "no" option. Even the people you'd imagine might be more sensible (eg Proton) email the crap out of you by default. So when even the OS starts doing it, it's somewhat infuriating.

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meindnoch 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

>Apple barely does it and only for their products

And U2

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mcs5280 5 days ago | parent [-]

11 years later I still refuse to listen to their music

	▲	achenet 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		That's okay, they'll be fine With or Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XayyES2vO8Q <3

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ants_everywhere 6 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Apple pushes their products often on iOS and many of them can't ve turned off or can't be turned off easily.

So you have notifications that you can only get rid of by engaging with the Apple ads.

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const_cast 5 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, the most egregious of which being the setting app.

Its an OS setting app. Its the most fundamental bundled application in an operating system, second only to maybe the file manager or package manager. Is nothing sacred?

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ants_everywhere 5 days ago | parent [-]

lol I was actually thinking of the setting app in my comment. I agree, it bugs me every time I pick up my phone.

It's gotten to the point where I resist looking at my iPhone because I'm going to have to take up my brain space with the unwanted notifications. I'm not sure what it is but on Android it's less pushy and I can clear all notifications with a single click. So most of the time my new iPhone sits in a drawer and I use my old Android as I go about my day.

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Sharlin 5 days ago | parent [-]

Hmm, what notifications do you get from the Settings app? I don't recall ever getting any. And you can clear all notifications with a single tap on iOS.

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withinboredom 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

When you open the app, the top half of the screen is dedicated to selling you their subscriptions. If you're already subscribed, you won't see it. It looks like a settings app. If you're not subscribed, you enter an ad hell and you can't make those notifications disappear until you at least view the ads.

	▲	Sharlin 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Ah, I have the 200GB iCloud subscription, no wonder then.

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kergonath 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

You can also not show notifications from specific apps, which I find much better.

	▲	tracker1 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		I definitely appreciate the android interaction for notifications, in that I can long-press a notification and jump straight into settings to disable if I like. I have most notifications disabled at this point.

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p_ing 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

News app is part of the OS image and littered with ads. I just got an ad in Settings for the month to month Applecare because mine is expiring. Took a few tries of declining to get the badge on Settings to go away.