Daring Fireball4d ago
Apple Announces Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/03/27/apple-announces-ads-are-coming-to-apple-maps
Apple Announces Ads Are Coming to Apple Maps

Link to: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/introducing-apple-business-a-new-all-in-one-platform-for-businesses-of-all-sizes/

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Show threadlatca
@daringfireball Apple One subscribers receiving an ad free tier would be great. However, I’m not holding my breath for it. I still begrudge Apple News+ for having ads. I do enjoy using it, but the experience is diminished because I’m shown ads that I might not have seen in Safari thanks to an ad-block extension.
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Show threadNit3d ago
@latca @daringfireball the News+ ads are all kinds of bad. From how large they are to the types of shady content they push. Truly crap.
Show threadJohn Gruber3d ago

@latca The difference there is that with News+, the ads are from and for the publishers of the stories, not Apple itself. It’s up to the publishers whether their articles have ads. The price of a News+ subscription would not cover ad-free subscriptions to all participating publications.

Apple Maps is a service Apple owns and controls. It’s entirely up to Apple whether it has ads, and whether you can buy your way out of seeing those ads.