<story><title>Facebook sued for skirting Apple privacy rules to snoop on users</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/meta-sued-for-skirting-apple-privacy-rules-to-snoop-on-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Yes, I understand why Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t pull FB&amp;#x2F;IG&amp;#x2F;WA&amp;#x2F;Uber&amp;#x2F;etc but as a smaller developer it&amp;#x27;s incredibly frustrating to have the full rules applied to me but not the big players.&lt;p&gt;A week or two ago I had to fight with app review over some functionality that was behind a login screen (they thought it should be public, I disagreed) and for my pre-permission-request screens (you know, the screen almost every app shows before firing the system prompt). Turns out you can have that screen but you can&amp;#x27;t ask a question on that screen or offer a way to dismiss and not get the system dialog. That was news to me since I had seen countless &amp;quot;Do you want to enable push notifications (yes|no)?&amp;quot; screens in top apps but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...&lt;p&gt;Why am I expected to bend over backwards for app review when these serial abusers get a free pass (no ban AND they can do things smaller apps get slapped down for)?&lt;p&gt;I know the answer is &amp;quot;money&amp;quot; but I fucking hate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>toast0</author><text>&amp;gt; but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...&lt;p&gt;Apple enforcement on rule changes has several different options:&lt;p&gt;a) only applied to new apps&lt;p&gt;b) only applied on next app submission&lt;p&gt;c) app will be removed on date unless it&amp;#x27;s fixed&lt;p&gt;This sort of change seems likely to be in category A, and then over time will be in category B and eventually the billion dollar apps will get an update denied until they fix it. They may drag their feet a little or a lot first.&lt;p&gt;Some of the subjective review things will get flagged only sometimes, so you might get through if you resubmit with no changes, or if you only address some of the requests. Inconsistent enforcement is frustrating, of course.</text></comment>
<story><title>Facebook sued for skirting Apple privacy rules to snoop on users</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-22/meta-sued-for-skirting-apple-privacy-rules-to-snoop-on-users</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>joshstrange</author><text>Yes, I understand why Apple doesn&amp;#x27;t pull FB&amp;#x2F;IG&amp;#x2F;WA&amp;#x2F;Uber&amp;#x2F;etc but as a smaller developer it&amp;#x27;s incredibly frustrating to have the full rules applied to me but not the big players.&lt;p&gt;A week or two ago I had to fight with app review over some functionality that was behind a login screen (they thought it should be public, I disagreed) and for my pre-permission-request screens (you know, the screen almost every app shows before firing the system prompt). Turns out you can have that screen but you can&amp;#x27;t ask a question on that screen or offer a way to dismiss and not get the system dialog. That was news to me since I had seen countless &amp;quot;Do you want to enable push notifications (yes|no)?&amp;quot; screens in top apps but that rule has changed and no longer allows you to pre-ask. I complied but the very next day I opened an app from a billion dollar company and I got a pre-ask that I was able to dismiss without popping the system dialog. wtf...&lt;p&gt;Why am I expected to bend over backwards for app review when these serial abusers get a free pass (no ban AND they can do things smaller apps get slapped down for)?&lt;p&gt;I know the answer is &amp;quot;money&amp;quot; but I fucking hate it.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cageface</author><text>My life has improved immeasurably since I gave up iOS dev and went back to the web. My baseline frustration level is so much lower.</text></comment>