Android Police has an article complaining about Samsung foisting ads on users in the default applications.
On the one hand, yes, absolutely. Samsung is greedy scum for adding adds to the stock phone app on a device that a user paid $1000+ for. Samsung should absolutely get rid of these ads and be ashamed that they were there in the first place.
On the other hand, might I suggest a possible solution–stop using Samsung’s apps anytime you can avoid it. Replace all those lousy stock apps with far superior replacements from the Google Play Store.
Samsung’s hardware is awesome, but its software is buggy, poorly engineered, and is not consumer-friendly, to say the least. Avoid it at all costs.