A platform offering you more of it's own services feels distinctly different from a platform selling your data to advertisers or displaying their ads. Does Win10 still have casual gaming ads in the system menu?
Are you talking about getting upsold to a paid apple music subscription while listening to apple music for free? (Do they even have a free tier?) Or getting shown an option to upgrade icloud storage when looking at icloud settings? Because... those seem fair enough. Pay for the services you use.
Other times I accidentally press the heart icon at the bottom thinking it's my favorites but it's an ad is are "browse"
If I could replace the default music player I would.
How is that an ad?
> As soon as I click to make the search active it defaults to Apple Music, instead of Your Library.
How is that an ad? The apple music app defaults to searching the apple music service.
> Other times I accidentally press the heart icon at the bottom thinking it's my favorites but it's an ad is are "browse"
I don't even know what that sentence means but that's the "for you" recommendations section. Even if it doesn't work if you don't pay for Apple Music, how is that an ad? This is a gated feature.
I agree that it doesn't sound like the apple music app is a good experience for you, but none of those are ads.
Yet. They do throw an alert when you launch Chrome to ask if you’d rather use Safari[1], so your example doesn’t seem far off.
[1]: http://danieljwilson.me/2019/10/16/a-catalina-double-standar...