[bilalnpe]

Apple and Google have guidelines about what apps are/aren't allowed to if they want to be on their app store.

"Protecting the user" is supposed to be one reasons they take a 30% cut of all in app purchases. Apple even uses this as an excuse to not allow side loading apps.

How are they not blocking this?

[hackernewds]

Thought Apple was the bastion of consumer privacy. Apparently removing TikTok though is not commercially beneficial for them

not to mention the elephant in the room: Apple Finds Its Next Big Business: Showing Ads on Your iPhone https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2022-08-14/apple-...

[intelVISA]

Apple hashes and sends over wire every bin you run, if that's a 'bastion' then RMS was right.

[latexr]

Ads and tracking aren’t inherently linked, it is possible to have one without the other. That’s allegedly what Apple is doing, so it doesn’t clash with the privacy commitment.

Even so, I disapprove of Apple’s forays into ads and wish them swift and hard failures in the area.

[alphabetting]

Google isn't blocking this because it would be a silver bullet to FTC for aiding Youtube. Apple isn't blocking this because they are beholden to China.