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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by tantalor on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:00AM (#24294323)
I doubt Apple would ban an app as valuable as Facebook.
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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by wtmt on Thursday August 27, 2020 @12:08PM (#24295061)
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-...

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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by K0nserv on Thursday August 27, 2020 @11:45AM (#24294807)
They just banned Fortnite
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Re:Facebook apologizes to users for Apple’s monstrous effort... by stjohnswarts on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:24PM (#24312026)
Fortnite is small pataters compared to facebook.
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