I get that, I'm just saying there is a world of difference between unremovable (or hard/paid to remove) carrier-installed lockscreen ads (or start menu ads for that matter, looking at you Windows) and a widget on a screen that I'd bet 50% of users have never seen and can remove in <5 seconds. Personally I never use/look at the today screen.

You first say that you had to go “hunting” to remove the widget but somehow removing it was “easy enough” in the next post? Something seems a bit hyperbolic between these two posts… which was it? Easy to remove or so hard you had to go hunting?