>I never though of the red dot around on my service menu (get iCloud) to be an add

Yet I see comments regularly criticising Microsoft's embedded one drive ads(not by you in particular, in general and not that I support that either).

That's the insidiousness of Apple's marketing, they've sold their products as a brand, ecosystem and lifestyle so well, nobody notices every time they use an Apple device, they're essentially not only being constantly marketed to, but are walking advertisements themselves.

Being locked down in a curated, walled off ecosystem controlled by the purveyor of your device is the epitome of being trapped in a bubble of constant marketing for their products.

How far we've come from the days when everybody lost their shit because an os vendor bundled a web browser with their os.