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These nags are annoying as the only way to get rid of them is to buy the upgrade.

Embarrassingly, Apple won and I finally bought iCloud a few years ago as per of Apple One.

At least with Apple they seem to fix the “bugs” where they show you an ad for something I already bought. Office365 has shown me ads on window even though I have a personal and work license but Microsoft seems to forget my login every once in a while and use that as an opportunity to stupidly show me ads again.

I, probably falsely, attribute this to stupidity on the company’s part that they aren’t smart enough to check if I’ve bought before showing me an ad. Or they assume everyone in the world should buy.

But I’ve gotten an add for Dropbox pro probably thousands of times and I don’t need it so haven’t upgraded. I’m using their free service so that’s a plus but these nagging ads make me hate the company for intruding.

I hate that they put ads in the Settings pane at all. Can't I just get an operating system that operates the system and doesn't try to shove ads or news in my face? fucking exasperating, it seems like no company is able to avoid the temptation to shit up their stuff
It's much more than a temptation. It's the primary purpose of a commercial entity. Free software still wins this one every time.
Free software might be better about this, but it is by no means free of it. NPM packages are the biggest offenders but “please donate / send me coffee / check out my other projects / subscribe to this service” notes have been in installation scripts and sometimes within the application itself for years. Multiple packages stuffed their scripts full of Ukraine flags at the beginning of the war. So even free software isn’t immune to using the platform to advertise other things.
An iPad I got for my parents were nagging about iCloud upgrades.

I got them a Surface Go. The Surface also has a microSD slot for additional storage.