Counterpoint: The Apple News app. Even of you're a paying($10!) subscriber, the app is full of absolutely awful advertisement.
The current culture of Apple produced this app; it wouldn't surprise me if other properties of Apple start to embed ads.
The current culture of Apple produced this app; it wouldn't surprise me if other properties of Apple start to embed ads.
A platform like Apple News does very little to redirect traffic back to the home page where you show the big 1st party ads that actually bankroll the org. Users stay in the app. From a publishers pov it’s really unattractive unless you can show ads.
You can subscribe to all the publications out there, but it's the same worthless clickbait drivel whether you're paying or not
I'd hope that ends up in the category of "tried it, failed, phase it out/down", but maybe not.
I especially hate ads in paid-for subscriptions.