Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort...
by tantalor on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:00AM
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I doubt Apple would ban an app as valuable as Facebook.
Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort...
by wtmt on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:08PM
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That might be true, and may involve backchannel negotiations. But Apple didn't hesitate to revoke Facebook's developer certificate (for internal apps) and make Facebook employees scramble for a day or so because of the "VPN" app tracking fiasco early in 2019. [1]
[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/30/facebook-...
Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort...
by K0nserv on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:45AM
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They just banned Fortnite
Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort...
by stjohnswarts on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:24PM
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Fortnite is small pataters compared to facebook.
It'll be really interesting to see this play out. The experiment with the "Do Not Track"[0] header on the web failed becaused it was largely ignored by everyone. With Apple's tight control over the App Store you simply cannot ignore the rules because Apple can outright ban you for it.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_Not_Track