Yeah, they're so ubiquitous people have gotten used to them. Companies have learned that if you put ads in paid products, people grumble and moan but still keep paying for your product.

The future is ads everywhere, paid or free, doesn't matter. More revenue out of every user with little effort, shareholders love this stuff.

I recently installed windows 10 on my Linux box and the amount of ads in the start menu was shocking.

Though I guess it's no different than dvds having ads after you paid for them.

Agreed. Outside software, there's a growing plague as well.

- Buying an $1200+ iPhone that doesn't come with an adapter.

- BMW charging you $10+ bucks per month to turn on seat heaters that came with your already expensive car

- Mercedes 0-60mph acceleration booster "unlock fee" for $1200/year

- Tesla woes with frequent "upgrades" locked behind paywalls.

- The ironic micro-transactions in Mobile games. When summed up, they are only "macro" with millions of bucks coming in every day. This has infested gaming outside Mobile as well. I'm not ever gonna touch console gaming again.