[royskee]

Apple barely does it and only for their products.

With the recent notable exception of the F1 movie advertisement that arrived as a notification from the Wallet app. https://daringfireball.net/2025/06/more_on_apples_trust-erod...

I disabled Wallet notifications immediately :-(

[nrb]

Obviously not defending it, but isn’t the F1 movie produced by Apple?

[LoganDark]

Yes. There's still an entire drama about how inappropriate it is for the Wallet app to advertise a movie.

[kergonath]

Yes. And the debacle was so loud because it does not happen generally (I’d have to go back to the U2 album thing to find something comparable).

They nag too much about their services, though. I don’t fucking want Fitness whatever or News thing, I would like the OS to stop putting a red dot in my settings. But anyway that’s not as brain dead as what I’ve seen on Windows.

[rkomorn]

I agree.

Not getting stuff pitched to you constantly by everyone is such an unending exercise of updating preferences, "unsubscribing", rejecting permissions requests, etc. It feels almost futile.

Not to mention the "ask again later..." option having replaced the flat out "no" option.

Even the people you'd imagine might be more sensible (eg Proton) email the crap out of you by default.

So when even the OS starts doing it, it's somewhat infuriating.