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Comment by drawingthesun | Hacker News Reader

I would rather go back to cheaper computers and phones and deal with ads than pay for extremely premium products and get ads.

I feel like an idiot buying a $7,000 aud computer to have the native apps contain ads.

It's disgusting.

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For an addition $1,000 you can purchase a lifetime ad-free option for this laptop. (Apple ID specific and nontransferable).

Made in jest, but oddly nearing reality.

Apple would probably call it the "Fair Trade" version considering what you're costing them in recurring revenue

The problem for Apple is people with $7000 to blow on a ocmputer are worth way, way more to advertisers than people that spend $500.

With Android/Linux and apart from Youtube (mobile/tvOs), You won't see any ads with uBlock and PiHole help.

Is ad blocking on Apple products not possible? I naively assume some hosts file changes could clean it up.

Maybe it will be like some of Apple's changes that allowed Apple's apps to bypass a whole lot of the network stack, VPNs, content filters, firewalls.

They later removed it, and tried to spin it as a "temporary feature while they resolved bugs in those pieces of software", though it's hard to imagine what apps like TextEdit needed a network kernel extension for...

https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-removes-feature-that-all...

Even if they blocked it in the OS you’d still be able to block with an off device network solution like pihole.

Or just use alternatives to the offending apps. I don’t mind Apple’s stock software and try to use it in most cases to avoid the software tinkering trap, but it’s not like there’s any that’s best in class/irreplaceable.

I think the commenters objection is more about principle.

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