Apple asked for a cut of Facebook’s ad sales years before it stifled Facebook

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66 points·fariszr··8 comments

Apple is behaving like the monopolistic corporation that it is - just as expected.

Treating users as pawns while bullying other corporations, using privacy as fear mongering tactic. All the while it is collecting all the data and plans to provide ads on its own ecosystem.

You’re describing any big company’s wet dream, Apple happened to have an exceptional product which gave them a leg up, nothing more. The answer is regulation regulation regulation. Not a slap on the wrist but real consequences that strike fear into the hearts of the board of directors and C level officers.

Criminal consequence to executives is what I have been calling for. Intentional and calculated skirting of regulations and privacy laws should have prison time consequence. Fines should be measured based on a percentage of a company's valuation.

Are you aware that Facebook does the same in other countries? the USA has net neutrality, in most other countries FB pays telecoms to be included for free. Add the fact that those countries have less purchasing power and nobody can compete with free whatsapp/facebook/instagram.

Interesting to see Facebook didn't leak this information when the privacy change was being rolled out.

And why is that?

Maybe it hurt Facebook more that Apple?

The discussions supposedly took place 4-6yrs ago. Apple only really went full bore on advertising their privacy focus in the past 2-3yrs, but they have had a track record since the very first iPhone of protecting user privacy.

They took a stance and ran with it. Before then they tolerated the ad business. But with nearly all of the younger generation using iPhone those companies stand to lose far more by leaving the platform than Apple do.

Oh the hypocrisy from Apple!

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