2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results

Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by dangus on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:05AM (#46323020)

Ah, so using a different advertisement platform instead of this one.

Let me put this another way: if you want to manually kick off app updates, you literally have to see ads. App Store > Today tab (the default view) has ads. Then you hit your profile button to escape the ad center and there is your app update interface.

This has been normalized by basically all commercial OS platforms, but imagine how insanely negatively received it would be if apt upgrade or brew upgrade displayed ads before your packages downloaded.

Apple even shows ads for stuff like Apple Music/TV+/Fitness/News+ free trials in the settings pane.

And people give Microsoft shit for having ads in their platform...at least they don't show you ads in Windows Update!

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by charcircuit on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:40AM (#46323237)

>but imagine how insanely negatively received it would be if apt upgrade

So what already happens when you ssh into an Ubuntu server to run apt upgrade to manually update it. It turns out people don't care that much.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by dangus on Friday December 19, 2025 @08:15AM (#46325467)

I think they do care. In the gaming community, Ubuntu has gone from about 40% to 10% marketshare since 2018.

https://youtu.be/Pwt216nn0zE

Now, you might say this is because of the influence of SteamOS, but I think you’d be hard pressed to argue that Ubuntu has been getting more popular overall.

Linux users have a choice while iOS and Android users essentially don’t.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by charcircuit on Friday December 19, 2025 @12:44PM (#46328644)

I am talking in relation server market share since the ad is targeted towards people running servers.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by dangus on Saturday December 20, 2025 @03:30AM (#46334504)

I wouldn’t be surprised if Ubuntu server has lost marketshare to other Linux distributions, but I don’t know that I have any way to verify it.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by littlecranky67 on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:11AM (#46323045)

$SEARCH_ENGINE engine is nowadays copilot or chatgpt, both ad-free if you use a simple ad-blocker.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by AnonymousPlanet on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:09AM (#46323786)

For how long? Months?

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by littlecranky67 on Friday December 19, 2025 @04:51AM (#46324014)

4 years, 11 months, and 3 days. Guaranteed. So not an issue right now.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by dangus on Friday December 19, 2025 @08:12AM (#46325436)

ChatGPT just announced ads, right? AI chat will be even harder to ad block than search engines. It won’t be a simple matter of blocking ad domains.

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Re:2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity i... by fmajid on Friday December 19, 2025 @02:49AM (#46323311)

Web search engines' advertising can be hidden with an ad blockier. The App Store? Not so much. Its search is completely unusable anyway, even when you give it the exact app name you want.

Apple's enshittification is real, and accelerating.

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