Mastodawn

Marco Arment Jun 24, 2025

This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.

Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?

Oh wait, that’s already what happens.

Apple’s as bad as everyone else. They don’t respect their customers — we’re fodder.

They truly have no standards anymore.
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Donald Hays

@marcoarment @caseyliss As I recall, when push notifications first arrived, App Store Guidelines prohibited using them to send ads. I don't think Apple ever really enforced it.

I have a zero tolerance policy on ad notifications. If I get an ad, I check the app's settings to see if you can opt out of ads. If not, I disable notifications for the entire app. I'm now doing that to Wallet.

I've had a little voice in my head recently saying I should try Linux again. It's been getting louder.