Comment 20 for bug 1992026

PLEASE no advertising by default.

This is the kind of incredibly annoying thing that gets people to dump Ubuntu and switch distros. Your users have no interest in playing whack-a-mole with ads. Please check some of the popular forums if you are in doubt on how unpopular this decision is (I was linked here from one).

Constructively, I would like to suggest instead that the message is ONLY shown to relevant systems and include why. IE, instead of sending everyone "Try our commercial offering for free!" spam, instead only send to EOL systems: "Your system is currently not receiving security updates as the end of life for (Version) has been reached -- security updates are available via (url). This message can be dismissed with (command)." I don't think people would be nearly so annoyed with that approach.