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Re: Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team

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Privacy proponents should cheer for this. Legally Meta must take down the app to comply with FTC's order (obligatory not a lawyer): https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2019/07/ftcs-5-bi...

> Another way the FTC says Facebook violated the order was by failing to adequately assess and address privacy risks posed by third-party developers. Other than getting developers to click an “I agree” terms-and-conditions box when registering an app with the Facebook Platform, Facebook didn’t screen developers or their apps before giving them access to massive amounts of data that users had designated as private. Of course, in the wrong hands, information like that can grease the wheels for identity thieves and fraudsters.

> The order imposes additional requirements to address Facebook’s illegal conduct. For example, Facebook must implement a stringent program to monitor third-party developers and terminate access to any developer that doesn’t follow the rules.

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2019/07/ftcs-5-bi...

Re: Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team

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Well, what did they expect? Does anyone think a company will sit around while you strip their app of their revenue source and republish it?

Now I'm all for trying, I use adblockers and SponsorBlock, but we all know that they're unofficial methods that could be taken down at any time. That's exactly what happened to Vanced.

Re: Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team

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These companies can ban the US President from their platforms. What makes you think they can't ban yours - you don't even have any nuclear launch codes...

> These companies can ban the US President from their platforms.

Good, you should be able to choose who you do business with, or at least that’s what conservatives argued for years.

Re: Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team

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It's worth noting that the app received $1M in preseed funding: https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/og-app-promises-you-an-ad-...

It's also worth noting that the Instagram API is extremely locked down for typical users (which is the reason why there hasn't been a clone like this) as it is limited to Businesses and Creators, but the app demonstrates features not available by the official API: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/instagram

They tweeted that they reverse-engineered the Android API, which would likely get personally you banned anywhere, even without a business: https://twitter.com/TheOGapp_/status/1574811387737407490

Re: Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyone on our team

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These companies can ban the US President from their platforms. What makes you think they can't ban yours - you don't even have any nuclear launch codes...

> These companies can ban the US President from their platforms. Good, you should be able to choose who you do business with, or at least that’s what conservatives argued for years.

Pretty sure “the free market” has decided that Parler and Truth Social are terrible social media products based on their relative lack of adoption
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