I'm glad to see this called out. The pursuit of profit to the exclusion of the greater good is incredibly irresponsible but ubiquitous- as we see around us that's the model we're created for our current reality. I feel like there's a special burden on tech since it's so easy for an addict to spend all day and night gambling online in their pajamas. But the trend seems to just be snowballing so frankly I don't see much momentum for a backlash.

Apple is not a privacy-first company.

They are a company-company that wants to make money.

They’re looking for increased places to make money, and right now that’s ads. They implemented “ask app not to track” to make themselves more appealing whilst driving out ads competition. Which, again, is good for the consumer but let’s not fool ourselves that it’s altruistic.

Now that they’re getting more into ads, get ready for them to hit all the same problems that other ads driven companies have had to deal with.

Pretty insane how gambling has taken over pretty much everything from video games (loot boxes) to professional sports (NHL broadcasts are now 3 hour long gambling ads) to phone apps.

It’s literally everywhere.

Im just shocked cus I always assumed it was illegal outside of Nevada, reservations, etc

I guess I should've expected loopholes to be exploited

The headline kinda implies that Apple deliberately placed these ads in that position. That’s almost certainly not the case.

> Apple is not a privacy-first company.

Whether or not that’s true isn’t really that relevant to the topic, though, which is about categories of ads and how they are placed along other apps. That seems to have much more to do with what the advertisers try to do, and what Apple doesn’t disallow.

Not just ads, the amount to apps that claim to be 100% free then demand a sub once the app is installed.