{"id":48208,"date":"2025-06-24T15:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T19:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=48208"},"modified":"2026-04-26T09:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T13:54:54","slug":"10-off-at-fandango","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/24\/10-off-at-fandango\/","title":{"rendered":"$10 Off at Fandango"},"content":{"rendered":"

Casey Liss<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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In case you forgot after F1<\/em> got multiple sections of the keynote at Apple’s developer conference.<\/p>\n\n

Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is a core system app interrupting you, promoting a sale by a movie-ticketing company, to push you to go see the platform vendor’s new movie.<\/p>

Why not just pop up random ads all the time, always creating new channels that everyone’s opted-into by default so you can never keep up with opting out of them all?<\/p>

Oh wait, that’s already what happens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n

You can’t opt out because the Wallet app also shows notifications that are actually important.<\/p>\n\n

And non-notification ads are mixed in everywhere now: the services apps, System Settings, etc. (I also got the F1<\/em> ad as a banner within<\/a><\/em> the Wallet app.) You could make that case that people don’t know about the different services and the content that they offer and so this is helpful onboarding. But this has been going on for years with no way to opt out. We’re long past the point where key system apps have become nagware<\/a>. I need extra taps\/clicks to get through the ad and just play my music. Screen space is wasted showing thumbnails for movies and articles that are not available to me instead of the ones that actually are.<\/p>\n\n

Previously:<\/p>\n