[jdalgetty]

If there's a screen, there will be ads.

[the_third_wave]

"The cause of the recent crash of flight ADZRUS-666 has been determined to be a badly scheduled ad impression which covered all screens in the glass cockpit to show aan ad of a dancing hippopotamus in a tutu selling skin care products while the plane was on final approach in IFR conditions."

[lawlessone]

"We have determined removing the ads will cost us more in lost revenue than compensating victims families the occasional time this happens."

[fsflover]

Not if it runs free software.

[npteljes]

Free software is not immune either, like in case of Ubuntu, or Firefox. But honestly, it's nitpicking, free software is humanity's real chance of having ethical software, and the situation in open source land is orders of magnitude better in this regards, than in proprietary land.