I'm running Xcode 14.3.1 (macOS 13.4.1). When I go to use Content View an error message saying 'promotedcontentd quit unexpectedly' spams my screen. Pressing "Ignore" or "Report" just causes the message to reappear a short time later. Digging around in my DNS-level content blocker shows iadsdk.apple.com being blocked, with the error message appearing shortly after a request gets blocked. Why is this? What does this domain do?
promotedcontentd continuously crashes when iadsdk.apple.com is DNS blocked
Same issue with the Apple SwiftUI AboutMe example, also on macOS 13.4.1 Intel with Xcode 14.3.1.
/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneOS.platform/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Profiles/Runtimes/iOS.simruntime/Contents/Resources/RuntimeRoot/usr/libexec/promotedcontentd
Is crashing with EXC_BAD_INSTRUCTION (SIGILL)
And I'm not (intentionally) blocking that iadsdk.apple.com domain.
A traceroute to the iadsdk.apple.com host is not working, too. Seems a routing issue lurks somewhere. Gets to the edge of my ISP's network and ICMP timeouts with 200+ ms delays.
Mostly for grins, I've added an A record into local DNS for iadsdk.apple.com zone and host (to 127.0.0.1, 5 minute TTL), just to see if that reduces the crashing. So far, I'm not seeing the repeating crashes.
I have the same issue, how can we fix that?