Tell that to Canonical: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1434512/how-to-get-rid-of-ub...

The fact that this plus that one time years ago when they added Amazon search to the main menu (uninstallable with one command) are the worst things that thousands of angry FOSS extremists have found, shows you what a great and ad-free OS Ubuntu really is.

The cool thing is not only was there a lot of push-back on this sort of behavior, which is great, make sure you let companies know you don't like being turned into the product. but linux itself is pretty great at avoiding lock-in when a company does this. not only are there 50, "almost but not quite the same" distributions you can trivialy switch to, there is probably a distribution whos mission statement is "X" but without the ads.