Article 654Z3 Apple developers are frustrated with gambling ads appearing across the App Store

Apple developers are frustrated with gambling ads appearing across the App Store

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Apple just launched new ad placements on the App Store, and developers aren't happy with the types of ads surfacing beneath their apps. As spotted by MacRumors, several app developers have pointed out that ads for gambling have started appearing in the You Might Also Like" sections beneath their App Store listings, which is just one of the new places Apple has started sticking ads.

Developer Simon B. Stovring posted a screenshot of an ad for an online casino app appearing beneath his text editor Runestone. Stovring says he visited the page for his app 10 times and noticed that ads for gambling apps showed up on three visits. Marco Arment, the developer of the podcast app Overcast, said on Twitter he's really not OK with" the gambling...

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