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> As the Apple App Tracking Transparency (ATT) rules change the game, different parts of the e-commerce stack will be forced to combine.

The real reason for this is a single party controls 50+% of the computing landscape now. They're able to turn off revenue streams for billion dollar companies with a single policy change. Facebook is pivoting in part due to this.

This economic gravitational wave of downstream impact shows that Apple has undue monopoly power. Congress and foreign powers should seek to constrain this.

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Another way to look at it would be to characterize the practice of monetizing surveillance as unethical such that it motivates Apple to make changes to prevent it. A revenue stream disappearing that never should have existed is a feature, not a bug IMO.

I'm sorry, what ?

Apple only turned off privacy infringing revenue streams, that's why Facebook was so pissed off !

You might enjoy being the product and allowing companies to take liberties with your data, I certainly do not.

For that reason alone, give me an iPhone any day of the week. That, alongside all the other great privacy aspects such as centralised privacy controls, WiFi privacy etc.

You completely ignored his argument about apple's market power and monopoly and devolved into moral grandstanding along with personal attacks.

Notice how the parent makes 0 moral claims. Your monkey brain really couldn't control itself.

I disagree.

The original poster was the one who went into "moral grandstanding", complaining about Apple being able to "turn off multi-billion revenue streams" and citing Facebook as the example of the disadvantaged multi-billion company.

And you are a great one to accuse me of personal attacks (where ?) and at the same time calling me a "monkey brain" ??? Grow up !

> complaining about Apple being able to "turn off multi-billion revenue streams"

This is a fact. There is nothing in the comment to indicate that it is a complaint. It is plainly a statement of fact.

> and at the same time calling me a "monkey brain"

I'm not calling you a monkey brain, it's a figure of speech that the comment caused you to react in a certain way based on emotion. The emotional / instinctual part of the brain is the monkey brain.

It’s easy to ignore that statement since it only really applies to the US. In most other markets Apple does not dominate on the order of >50%.

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