
slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) quipped: *"An 'app' is just a web-page skinned in enough IP to make it a crime to add an ad-blocker to it."*,[1] but the native rot goes deeper. Remember when FB rebuffed Apple's offer it couldn't refuse?[2]
Knock me over with a feather, the "privacy wars" were all for show:
https://infrequently.org/2025/08/apple-vs-fb-kayfabe/
[1]: https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/12/market-failure/
[2]: https://www.phonearena.com/news/apple-facebook-almost-worked-together%5Fid141910