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App Store guidelines forbid using the Contacts for anything except the intended purpose: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/12/apple-disallows-d...

Do we give CH the benefit of the doubt =p ?

In any case, I also hope (and expect) Apple to implement better controls for sharing contacts.

EDIT: Typo

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Huh, so Clubhouse is explicitly breaking Apple's rules.

Surely Apple knows this, but is allowing it because... it's mega-popular?

What's the point of having rules if clawing your way to popularity by leveraging their violation is deemed permissible?

How are they breaking the rules? It seems like they are using it for the same purpose they prompt permissions for.

They create ghost profiles for those contacts, just in case that user ever signs up. That’s fucking garbage and they should be ashamed of doing that, let alone immediately removed from the App Store.

This seems like the shady type of thing lawmakers should pass laws against

It's the sort of thing Apple should ban to protect its claim that it is more private than Android.

It really is.

I keep buying into the Apple ecosystem because of their stance on user privacy. Sure, they aren't perfect; but they are miles ahead of there competitors.

I see this as a key problem of our times. Social convention used to have a stronger impact on behavior. Now it isn't enough for behavior to be disdained, it must be flagrantly illegal.

Growth by any means necessary.. seems like there are a tens of thousands of apps that each act like their own data bureau, totalling dossiers on billions of people, just because it makes money. Maybe a few percentage points' value lost as a slap on the wrist every now and then. I feel, that in this scenario, rather than a better carrot, we need a better stick..

When was the time when social convention had a stronger impact?

Social convention has always had a strong impact. Where I live, people will cut you in line if you leave a space big enough for them to fit and it's perfectly ok. Where I'm from, if someone did that, you'd end up with an angry mob and probably a fist in your face.

Social conventions are always stronger than the law; at least in person.

Really? Goddamn that's some dirty tactics. Guess I won't even look up what they actually do. FB already got its hooks in me when I was young and stupid, never again.

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