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Surprised this is only being mentioned now. I've been getting these on my phone for years.
Yes, it’s not new and you don’t have to pay to get rid of them. If you can’t handle waiting for the offer to expire then you can accept the free trial and immediately cancel it. Unlike most companies apple ends a free trial immediately if you cancel it.
They’re also not pop up ads. They’re inline in the settings ui. I’ve been told I’m overly sensitive to ads and these only annoy me slightly.
You're only slightly annoyed by an ad that requires you to subscribe to a service with a free trial, then cancel the trial, to remove?
And I thought any ad on a $2000 product was too much, even it it was as simple as closing with an X