[snapetom]

Years later, and I've had a ton of problems actually finding an Independent Repair provider. As far as I can tell Apple does not actually maintain a directory, and it's left for local repair shops to market/advertise. The later, then is highly dependent on their Google ranking skills.

I went to a local repair shop for years. I went in a third time in a year to change a battery on an iPhone 8. Each time they apologized, blamed it on a bad shipment of batteries, and repaired it for free. However, on that third time, I chatted them up about the IRP. The guy got extremely hostile about the program.

Screw that place. Took me a while, but I finally did find a IRP after much googling and asking around.

[rasz]

Google adsense banned repair and data recovery from advertising on their platform "We need to discuss Google's anti-repair advertising discrimination." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUBJ2LD-Dao

[qppo]

I just searched google for repair and data recovery for several of my devices with adblock disabled and it turned up several local shops. So seems to be provably untrue.

I kind of lost faith in Rossman after he blamed Apple for Customs agents seizing counterfeit parts.

[oehpr]

Can you detail your procedure here? I just attempted this and I can't see any advertisements.

on firefox and chromium I searched these phrases without adblock and saw no ads

  macbook repair vancouver
  macbook repair calgary
  macbook repair new york
  macbook repair glasgow

[throwaway2048]

Search results are not adsense

[reaperducer]

I've had a ton of problems actually finding an Independent Repair provider. As far as I can tell Apple does not actually maintain a directory

Call AppleCare. That's how I found the one that I used.

[snapetom]

Great idea, thank you!