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I have very mixed feelings about all of this. Obviously, it's disappointing news to see. But at the same time, it's hard to be surprised. Let's be honest here,

I have very mixed feelings about all of this. Obviously, it's disappointing news to see. But at the same time, it's hard to be surprised. Let's be honest here, the internet runs on ads, full stop. I have no concrete data but if you were take an aggregate of tech workers whose salary is made either fully or partially on ad revenue either directly by their employer OR customers, it would have to be a significant percentage, right? I'm not gonna guess but it's gotta be significant. Hell, FAANG alone is tremendously ad-driven, and those are largely considered the most prestigious jobs in the industry. If you've spent 10 years working in tech, what are the chances that you've never taken a dollar that was earned through an online ad? Maybe I'm overly cynical here and I'm no Apple cheerleader here, but we see this same pattern emerge over and over and over again. Companies have to grow or else. That's always been the game, how did we honestly think it would go any other way than this?

CydeWeys 4y ago
"Everyone does it" isn't a good excuse, particularly because it's not true. I've never worked on an ad-funded product in my entire career. Every product I've ever worked on is funded through customers paying for said product. So, to the extent that doing so makes you feel guilty, rather than excusing it based on others' complacency, simply stop.
- thr0wawayf00 4y ago
  Perhaps you haven't, but what are your customers doing? Even if you're not directly building ad products, you're likely not far removed from the businesses that are. I'm not trying to make an excuses here, I'm simply pointing out that the entire foundation of the internet economy is built on the premise that what you do on the network can and should be tracked for profit, and to complain about one of the wealthiest companies on the planet finally in the game demonstrates naivety. Business does not care about morals, business cares about making money. That is how businesses are incentivized to behave. There's no legitimate counteracting force (sorry but individuals angrily venting frustration on an internet forum is not a threat to their business) to motivate Apple to behave any differently. They know that they just need to keep providing a better service than the alternatives and as long as the ads are slightly less crappy than Android, people aren't going to leave Apple. Argue right or wrong all you want, but this is the reality.
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CydeWeys 4y ago

"Everyone does it" isn't a good excuse, particularly because it's not true. I've never worked on an ad-funded product in my entire career. Every product I've ever worked on is funded through customers paying for said product. So, to the extent that doing so makes you feel guilty, rather than excusing it based on others' complacency, simply stop.

thr0wawayf00 4y ago
Perhaps you haven't, but what are your customers doing? Even if you're not directly building ad products, you're likely not far removed from the businesses that are. I'm not trying to make an excuses here, I'm simply pointing out that the entire foundation of the internet economy is built on the premise that what you do on the network can and should be tracked for profit, and to complain about one of the wealthiest companies on the planet finally in the game demonstrates naivety. Business does not care about morals, business cares about making money. That is how businesses are incentivized to behave. There's no legitimate counteracting force (sorry but individuals angrily venting frustration on an internet forum is not a threat to their business) to motivate Apple to behave any differently. They know that they just need to keep providing a better service than the alternatives and as long as the ads are slightly less crappy than Android, people aren't going to leave Apple. Argue right or wrong all you want, but this is the reality.

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