[2fast4you]

They're probably talking about notifications probing you to add your card to Apple Wallet.

I'm not sure if you get them if you never touch Apple Wallet, I always get them when I transfer to a new phone or reset my current phone and need to setup my cards again before they can fully transfer.

It's annoying, but never felt it was comparable to Microsoft.

[ezfe]

You get them if you don't, but if you dismiss it it goes away forever.

[LorenPechtel]

Finish setting up your i<device>. It doesn't go away.

Nowhere near as evil as what the other guys are doing, though.

[howinteresting]

There are no ads in GNU/Linux distributions.

[thaumasiotes]

Did Ubuntu stop running them?

[howinteresting]

Yes.