[drawingthesun]

I would rather go back to cheaper computers and phones and deal with ads than pay for extremely premium products and get ads.

I feel like an idiot buying a $7,000 aud computer to have the native apps contain ads.

It's disgusting.

[grapescheesee]

For an addition $1,000 you can purchase a lifetime ad-free option for this laptop. (Apple ID specific and nontransferable).

Made in jest, but oddly nearing reality.

[rchaud]

Apple would probably call it the "Fair Trade" version considering what you're costing them in recurring revenue

[cma]

The problem for Apple is people with $7000 to blow on a ocmputer are worth way, way more to advertisers than people that spend $500.

[vdfs]

With Android/Linux and apart from Youtube (mobile/tvOs), You won't see any ads with uBlock and PiHole help.

[nomel]

Is ad blocking on Apple products not possible? I naively assume some hosts file changes could clean it up.

[FireBeyond]

Maybe it will be like some of Apple's changes that allowed Apple's apps to bypass a whole lot of the network stack, VPNs, content filters, firewalls.

They later removed it, and tried to spin it as a "temporary feature while they resolved bugs in those pieces of software", though it's hard to imagine what apps like TextEdit needed a network kernel extension for...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-removes-feature-that-all...

[austhrow743]

Even if they blocked it in the OS you’d still be able to block with an off device network solution like pihole.

Or just use alternatives to the offending apps. I don’t mind Apple’s stock software and try to use it in most cases to avoid the software tinkering trap, but it’s not like there’s any that’s best in class/irreplaceable.

I think the commenters objection is more about principle.