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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

...and it's the proprietary APIs from app stores that make it so hard to escape one ecosystem for another. The entire point of the exercise is to subvert interoperability, and to do *that*, it's necessary to keep the anchor apps happy. Which is why Apple and Google let FB spy on you via the web.

Apple isn't defending your privacy, it's trying to retreat just far enough into the hedges that it hopes you don't notice how it dangling FB and TikTok to take the fall.