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Alex Russell

@slightlylate
165 posts
2022-10-25
This would be disgusting if Apple were still an underdog laptop shop. As the dominant smartphone maker in the US and many other geos, it's a gobsmacking shakedown. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-25 View on X
MacRumors

Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions

With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.

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2022-10-17
The perfect moment for an FTC that thinks creatively. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-17 View on X
ProPublica

Many big US property managers use RealPage's YieldStar software to set rent prices, raising questions about potential collusion in violation of federal law

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

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2022-10-15
The hubris in FB and Google, ratcheted up by fear of each other, demonstrated the worst of both cultures in AIA an AMP. That Apple News is still going strong, however, is a demonstration that arrogance hasn't left the building yet. https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-15 View on X
Axios

Meta plans to end support for Instant Articles, a source says in mid-April 2023, giving news publishers six months to readjust their Facebook strategies

Sara Fischer / Axios :

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2022-10-01
This still isn't a browser and FB is still screwing over the web: https://infrequently.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-01 View on X
9to5Google

Meta says Facebook for Android will soon use its own Chromium-based in-app browser engine, citing security and stability as reasons for its WebView alternative

When you open a link while in another app, it usually launches in your browser (e.g., Chrome) or a Custom Tab.

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@darinwf Still not a browser? Not sure this is good for anyone but FB. And maybe not even them.
2022-10-01 View on X
9to5Google

Meta says Facebook for Android will soon use its own Chromium-based in-app browser engine, citing security and stability as reasons for its WebView alternative

When you open a link while in another app, it usually launches in your browser (e.g., Chrome) or a Custom Tab.

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2022-08-13
Now, it's worth asking: would anyone trust FB as their browser? Maybe some people. But probably not many. FB knows this too. Very little residual trust: https://guild.co/...
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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Subverting browser choice is a structural erosion of privacy. It neuters user preferences, and FB knows it. How could FB cure the harms? Simple: *be* a browser. Become subject to choice. Win the business. Just stop cheating to steal traffic.
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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Legit, above-board browser vendors do not hide their feature set. They do not hide the fact that they *are* a browser. Facebook resorts to this because they know their product is shite, but they want the traffic and the reduction in tracking that comes with it.
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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When Apple talks about Privacy, read “power”. Power Apple wields (often with good outcomes for users) because Apple is convinced that what it does is good because Apple did it. The lack of any other principle behind this exercise of power is everywhere, if you look.
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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Always remember that Apple's privacy provocation is not principled. If it were, it would set policies about terms of post-collection use for apps in its store. It would have banned FB's In-App “Browser” shenanigans. It would have removed *dozens* of permissions from native apps. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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The real scandal regarding FB's In-App “Browser” isn't the extra tracking, it's the subversion of browser choice. I'm sure it's totally coincidental that this *also* has the effect of removing tracker blocking that real browsers might apply.
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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You don't have to like ads (god knows I don't) or surveillance capitalism ([ unprintable diatribe ]) to understand that Apple is complicit and opportunistic. See also: https://mobiledevmemo.com/...
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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Receipts. Apple is as vindictive as it is opportunistic, so this is brave of Matt. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-13 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Sources: before ATT, Apple suggested possible revenue-sharing deals to Meta, like taking a cut from “boosted posts” via IAP and an ad-free Facebook subscription

The two tech giants discussed revenue-sharing arrangements, including a potential ad-free, subscription version of Facebook

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2022-08-12
How can those apps show they're not shady? Any of: - Competet for default browser setting - if you can render webpages, you're halfway there! - Call CCT/SFSVC to layer the user's real browser into the app on link clicks - Let developers opt-out
2022-08-12 View on X
Felix Krause

A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords

How the seemingly innocuous “in-app web browsers” on iOS/Android are a really bad thing, and a proposal for how to fix that. With a little web history thrown in. https://www.holova...

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Google has known for years that WebView IABs are bad for users, bad for privacy, and bad for the web. Apple knew about these loopholes when they launched about ATT. The thing is, they don't care as long as they rinse users through App Stores. https://infrequently.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-12 View on X
Felix Krause

A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords

How the seemingly innocuous “in-app web browsers” on iOS/Android are a really bad thing, and a proposal for how to fix that. With a little web history thrown in. https://www.holova...

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Adrian's proposed solution mirrors mine: headers should allow pages to “punch-out” of sub-standard treatment while we breathlessly await mobile OSes enforcing reasonable, pro-privacy, pro-user, pro-web policies. On second thought, don't hold your breath.
2022-08-12 View on X
Felix Krause

A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords

How the seemingly innocuous “in-app web browsers” on iOS/Android are a really bad thing, and a proposal for how to fix that. With a little web history thrown in. https://www.holova...

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If you want an inkling of the reason I'm so upset about “in app browsers”, here's someone else noticing what I've been wittering on about: https://krausefx.com/...
2022-08-12 View on X
Felix Krause

A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords

How the seemingly innocuous “in-app web browsers” on iOS/Android are a really bad thing, and a proposal for how to fix that. With a little web history thrown in. https://www.holova...

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Folks, this in-app browser thing really isn't complicated: An app that isn't a browser, but steals traffic from browsers for web content it doesn't serve, is shady af.
2022-08-12 View on X
Felix Krause

A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram for iOS open links with a custom in-app browser, letting Meta track every interaction including entering passwords

How the seemingly innocuous “in-app web browsers” on iOS/Android are a really bad thing, and a proposal for how to fix that. With a little web history thrown in. https://www.holova...

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This underscores how broken Apple's marketing on privacy is; the problem is data at rest, not just in-the-moment collection. The solution will involve curbs on collection, but not technical controls...at least not principally. https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-12 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US FTC seeks public comment on federal online privacy rules, which could take years to enact, and is considering various paths, such as focusing on children

on our location, our health, what we read online, who we know, what we buy. @FTC is seeking comment on whether to issue rules aimed at commercial surveillance & lax data security p...

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2022-08-11
Adrian's proposed solution mirrors mine: headers should allow pages to “punch-out” of sub-standard treatment while we breathlessly await mobile OSes enforcing reasonable, pro-privacy, pro-user, pro-web policies. On second thought, don't hold your breath.
2022-08-11 View on X
Felix Krause

A detailed look at how Facebook and Instagram opening links in a custom in-app browser on iOS lets Meta track every interaction, including entering passwords

The iOS Instagram and Facebook app render all third party links and ads within their app using a custom in-app browser.

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