[disgruntledphd2]

> Apple's ad system is subject to the same rules.

This does not appear to be true, given that they were asked this question by the FT and refused to answer.

See: https://www.ft.com/content/074b881f-a931-4986-888e-2ac53e286...

Money quote (which to be fair, was not too an FT journalist):

“Apple was unable to validate for us that Apple’s solutions are compliant with Apple’s policy,” he said. “Despite multiple requests and trying to get them to confirm that their products are compliant with their own solutions, we were unable to get there.”