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.
"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."
> 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.
Amazon gets singled out because they are one of the largest, most powerful companies in the history of mankind, by almost any measure: market cap, revenue, employees, etc.
UPS is not.
Amazon wields immense power over multiple industries, and they are scrutinized as such.
It's telling that it took until 2021 for Facebook's own employees to come to terms with Zuck. Not a lot of self-reflection or awareness happening there, it appears.
Amazon: “While we appreciate that some social media companies have become much faster at responding, to address this problem at scale it is imperative for social media companies to invest adequately in proactive controls to detect and enforce fake reviews ahead of our reporting the issue to them.”
Way to pass the buck Amazon. You created the walled garden. Do a better job of weeding it.
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