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Apple vs. Facebook Is Kayfabe
Apple vs. Facebook is, and always was, kayfabe. In reality, Apple is Facebook's chauffeur; holding Zuck's coat while Facebook wantonly surveils iPhones owners. How can we be sure? Because Apple continues to allow wide-scale abuse of In-App Browsers.
To effect total surveillance, Facebook and ByteDance and don't need to inject scripts into the runtime, they only need your browser not to block their "ad tags" that are already embedded in every high-traffic page on the internet. Real browsers matter because they are user agents; they rather than ad networks (Facebook, Google, ByteDance) and the OS vendors that are desperate to keep apps from decamping to portable, interoperable alternatives. The answer is blindingly obvious: forbid IABs and/or force native apps to use the system-provided browser-overlay systems — SFSafariViewController and Android Custom Tabs — where user's choice of browser and customisations will be respected.
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