I pretty much stopped using MacOS because they put so many fucking ads in the OS by default and smugly expected you to just accept that they were there. It's not as bad as Windows yet, but honestly it's just as annoying.
I'm just one data point, but I haven't personally seen any of those ads in macOS but I don't use Apple News. Also I see all of these links are reports from 3 - 8 years ago so perhaps some of them don't occur any more?
Regardless, it's rather rude to call people names here when we're just having a discussion. Your tone is offensive.
You were wrong. MacOS has advertisements, that's the long-and-short of it.
I correct people when they make this mistake because Hacker News has a habit of giving corporations undue lip-service. You can be mad at me if it makes you feel better, but the problem is that Apple doesn't respect your attention. MacOS today literally violates it's own Human Interface Guidelines to serve you advertisements; think on that for a moment.
It appears you have missed the point. I'm not upset with you for referencing reports; my frustration lies with your condescending tone and name-calling, which contribute nothing to the discussion. Your approach is frankly very off-putting.
Oh you sweet summer child...
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252412228?sortBy=best
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7655683?sortBy=best
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251442866?sortBy=best
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251628859?sortBy=best
I pretty much stopped using MacOS because they put so many fucking ads in the OS by default and smugly expected you to just accept that they were there. It's not as bad as Windows yet, but honestly it's just as annoying.