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they used to call this malware
Is it actually malicious, though? Ads by themselves aren't malicious.
Adware then, which is generally unacceptable in a large full featured paid product.
If its pre-installed, its typically called "Bloatware".
And I remember having bloatware on my machine going back to the 90s. The first really high quality gaming computer I got was a Sony Vaio and it had tons of bullshit excess software I had to mop out of it before I was ready to really use it.
"It's okay when we do it."