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Apple is requiring developers to use the following flow in their apps if they opt out of using Apple's payment processing:

Title: This app does not support the App Store’s private and secure payment system

Body: All purchases in the <App Name> app will be managed by the developer “﹤Developer Name﹥.” Your stored App Store payment method and related features, such as subscription management and refund requests, will not be available. Only purchases through the App Store are secured by Apple.

Action 1: Continue

Action 2: Cancel

What % of web users surf the web without JS turned on? (Honest question, I don't know.)

And if this % is very tiny, does it make sense for devs to devote time developing an experience for this rare edge case?

"Janneke Parrish was terminated for deleting files off her work phone, including the apps Robinhood, Pokémon GO, and Google Drive"

Umm, what? Truly bizarre reason given. I would think Apple could give a more plausible reason to cover themselves for retaliation for organizing.

Our long national nightmare of the touch bar is about to be over.

Some of those could also be said of Snowden, but he found some impactful, explosive material.

The point the author is making is that the rebuttal has very little substance. The signal to noise ratio is low.

"If the best Facebook can come up with is this disgusting attempt at character assassination, Haugen is telling God’s own truth. We should listen to her."

A pretty powerful closing statement IMHO.

> Company researchers in 2019 set up a test account as a female Indian user and said they encountered a “nightmare” by merely following pages and groups recommended by Facebook’s algorithms.

> “The test user’s News Feed has become a near constant barrage of polarizing nationalist content, misinformation, and violence and gore,” they wrote. The video service Facebook Watch “seems to recommend a bunch of softcore porn.”

> After a suicide bombing killed dozens of Indian paramilitary officers, which India blamed on rival Pakistan, the account displayed drawings depicting beheadings and photos purporting to show a Muslim man’s severed torso. “I’ve seen more images of dead people in the past 3 weeks than I’ve seen in my entire life total,” one researcher wrote."

Facebook's default content consumption mode is to create a nightmarish experience. FB doesn't care as long as those ad clicks are working ok.

The more important part of the title is "The Company’s Response Is Weak, Documents Show."