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> Looks like Tim Cook, John Ternus and Eddy Cue really enjoy being swamped with ads in their products.

I bet they don’t see any ads, because their accounts will have the highest tier (or even a special one above that) of everything.

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That’s bad hardening. You are not supposed to use your root account for everyday work.

No, hardening has nothing to do with it. They have a feature flag system deeply embedded in their software. And such systems can totally distribute different flags to different people. And that's how you could easily create VIP accounts with different behaviors than the rest of the world, like all ad festures turned off.

reminds of me of an instance where the opposite happened:

> internal email from Bill Gates complaining about the usability of some Windows features. It’s old — from 2003

https://www.techdirt.com/2008/06/25/you-thought-you-hated-wi...

I'm 99% sure the hardening part was a joke

Thank you, sir.

I am still not sure if the joke was bad or if everyone takes everything too seriously nowadays.

I guess it was simply too close to reality. That's why I didn't register that as humor. Text also doesn't carry tone of voice well, which makes confusion more likely

It's not a root account issue, it's that they have already bought all the services there are to buy. One would assume that once you buy a service, they would stop prompting you to buy it.

Though, in my experience, that isn't true with Apple. Even when I tried Apple One, I still saw bugs in the experience that led to ads for things I already subscribed to... particularly in News+ and AppleTV+.

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