Re:Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps
by duskwuff on Thursday January 31, 2019 @06:00PM
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There's a lot more in the program agreement I didn't include. These are just a few of the highlights I happened to notice.
> ...though perhaps they could make a case that these specific networking hooks were walled away to a separate, non-prohibited purpose.
They could not. The primary purpose of the Facebook and Google research apps was not to provide a VPN service; as such, using VPN services was a violation of the program terms. The use cases mentioned -- "to serve advertising or to otherwise build user profiles for advertising" -- are examples of prohibited use cases, not the full extent of the prohibitions.
> ...though perhaps they could make a case that these specific networking hooks were walled away to a separate, non-prohibited purpose.
They could not. The primary purpose of the Facebook and Google research apps was not to provide a VPN service; as such, using VPN services was a violation of the program terms. The use cases mentioned -- "to serve advertising or to otherwise build user profiles for advertising" -- are examples of prohibited use cases, not the full extent of the prohibitions.