[stevestreza]

Offering and offering and offering and offering. There's no way to say "I don't want this", you will get "offered" (meaning: advertised to) all the time when using these apps that previously worked just fine.

[chadlavi]

Maybe I've drunk too much of the koolaid, because I have never noticed one of these "ads". I don't use apple music or apple tv, and my phone has never pushed these services on me. It's not like they toss an alert when I open Spotify to ask me if I'd rather use Apple Music. Where are you getting served these ads?

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.

[asiachick]

I see the music ads. As one example if I click "Search" (which I do to search my own music) even before I've typed anything there are "trending" recommendations. As soon as I click to make the search active it defaults to Apple Music, instead of Your Library. I switch to "Your Library" but for whatever reason from time to time it ends up back on "Apple Music".

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.

[latexr]

> It's not like they toss an alert when I open Spotify to ask me if I'd rather use Apple Music.

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...