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This is what the Stocks app on MacOS looks like if you scroll down for the smallest time - https://i.imgur.com/1j7ykDw.png

So Stocks app in MacOS, no stocks when you open it, but the news and ads is what you see.

I do hope we don't see ads in the Weather app at some point, that would be a shame.

Edit - I was curious, if you select APPL on the side and scroll a little, you get ads too, so they're on all side tabs - https://i.imgur.com/2X3Et0l.png

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Imagine paying top dollar for a premium Apple product, only to get a soup of ugly ads in the native applications of your device.

As far as I know, this is the case for low end models from vendors like Xiaomi. And even there you can turn it off. I never dreamed of Apple doing something so detrimental to its famed User Experience that feels so cheap and disrespectful.

> And even there you can turn it off.

Does Apple's System Integrity Protection protect apps like Stocks?

Wow, that's eye-opening as an Android user and helps to put the anti-tracking initiative into strategic perspective. Apple is leveraging user trust to claim that it's ok for them to track users, not not ok for anyone else.

What I find particularly egregious is that when Apple requests to track users, they use the text "Allow Apple to personalize your experience?", while for 3rd parties they use the much scarier "allow this app to track you?" prompt

That's straight up shady / bad faith

If that's legitimately Apple, Steve Jobs is rolling over in his grave. Good lord.

Is this exclusive to the US? Mine does not look like that.

This is the Stocks app in the UK.

I see it in Canada too. Really quite disappointing.

Hoooooly shit that is so bad.

Regret. Panic. Uncertainty. What the fuck am I going to do now?

Are they being loaded from a separate domain?

LOL, wut? I'm in the UK but I don't see any of these... (although my AppleID is non-UK, maybe that's why?)

These are literally the trashiest, scammiest, lowest-tier clickbait ads. You would expect these on the bottom of tabloid articles from The Sun, not a stocks app (!) from Apple (!!).

Holy shit, I am appalled!

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