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A comment on Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefited Google. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefi... by throwaway4good on Sunday October 31, 2021 @09:12AM (#29056737)
Yes. Apple gets paid billions by Google - obviously Apple is not going to hurt Google - instead they are going on a privacy crusade against companies whose business they can hurt without any financial blowback.
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Re:Apple’s privacy changes hurt Snap and Facebook but benefi... by jakejarvis on Sunday October 31, 2021 @10:12AM (#29057093)
I believe a big chunk (the majority?) of this comes from a fairly simple deal to set Google as the default search engine in Safari. Facebook doesn't have something similar to leverage, that I can think of at least.

https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...

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