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The article doesn't make it clear whether this will be applied to the App Store only.

If this is the case, apps are not a life-necessity in the information era - unlike information (search), shopping (e-commerce), or communication (social media).

They do not intrude our everyday living unless we intentionally look for it. Every other kind of advertising does so and thus are open to abuse.



Banking apps (for example) are absolutely a necessity. This is kind of a silly distinction to draw.

My take is that either all advertising is bad or none is. That's why I use Linux, which has fewer ads (zero) than any other OS.


You can go to your local bank or use the desktop app instead.

How do you deter off bad/unethical advertising if everyone is subjective to it anyways?

Like almost any tool, you have both bad and good actors.

The how matters https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20end%20justi....




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