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by phyrex 689 days ago
> The same thing happened with the Threads app which was withheld from European users last year for no actual technical reason. Now it’s been released and nothing changed in between.

No technical reason, but legal reasons. IIRC it was about cross-account data sharing from Instagram to Threads, which is a lot more dicey legally in the EU than in NA.
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pavlov 689 days ago
It’s not like Meta doesn’t know how it works. They ship many apps that share accounts like FB + Messenger most prominently.

They’ve also had separate apps in the past that shared an Instagram account, like IGTV (2018 - 2022).

The Threads delay was primarily a lobbying ploy.

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phyrex 689 days ago
No, it really was a legal privacy thing. I worked in privacy at Meta at that time. Everybody was eager to ship it everywhere, but it wasn't worth the wrath of the EU to launch without a clear data separation between IG and threads.
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