I thought the exact same thing. Of course, a key difference is that those of us who choose to pay for an iPhone, use iOS, and often pay for additional services are already giving Apple our money. They're trying to extract more and more from us and it's honestly insulting. I give techradar credit for providing us their user-hostile experience for free.

Yep, I had trouble reading this article because it was entirely covered in ads.

You are free to use an adblocker or the "reader" view in your browser.

This is a solved problem and you are not utilizing the solutions.

You can use ublockorigin on firefox to solve the problem. You can do nothing about system ads on iphone

Tech radar has to keep the lights on somehow because they’re giving the article away for free.

Apple you paid a lot of money to already.