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Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

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1704 points ardit33 | 3 comments | 13 Aug 20 19:03 UTC | HN request time: 0.452s | source
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throwaway140820 ◴[14 Aug 20 04:16 UTC] No.24153297[source]▶
Apologies for the extreme swearing that ensues.

Wow, I would have hoped for better support from the HN community. Instead there are apologists after apologists. So what if Epic is big. Really, seriously shouldn't we have had alternative app stores available form the official ones. Why is this even a point of debate? All the time we hear stories of people one of our own getting fucked by these app stores and their lordship and now that we have an opportunity to make some noise, this is the response? Fuck that. Maybe we deserve these lords.

Fuck your security and fuck your walled gardens. Fucking no alternative browser allowed. Fuck that, fuck you apple and fuck you google. Fuck your monopoly and chokehold on the devs.

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jacobsenscott ◴[14 Aug 20 04:40 UTC] No.24153514[source]▶
I truly believe apple pays people to comb through HN and down vote any comment critical of apple. The simple fact is that apple has done more than any other company in the history of computing to quash the freedom to control your own computing devices.

It is impossible to fight apple in the way we fought microsoft years ago - by building out a good opensource ecosystem. The entire reason for the app store is to stop that from happening.

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throw6969420[dead post] ◴[14 Aug 20 06:01 UTC] No.24154227[source]▶
I’m paid to be here, but not by Apple, that I’m aware of anyway. There is no way to stop it. Even tying a LinkedIn profile requirement like someone else mentioned isn’t an option. I’ve got thousands of accounts active on most social media platforms and discussion-based sites. Puppeteer + mobile proxies makes this simple these days and completely undetectable. I’m posting it from a setup now!
rollulus ◴[14 Aug 20 06:12 UTC] No.24154312[source]▶
That sounds like you have a story to share. Feel like elaborating a bit?
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1. throw6969420 ◴[14 Aug 20 06:26 UTC] No.24154403[source]▶
I operate a SaaS for it :) started as scraping as a service, which evolved to “web API where an API doesn’t exist” as a service, and that includes where you’re connecting from. I consume my own product and offer an online reputation management service. Hoping for GPT3 beta soon to skip my rudimentary ML and comment thievery + manual approach where discussion is a client requirement.
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2. dstick ◴[14 Aug 20 06:49 UTC] No.24154576[source]▶
So.. how would this be different from the Macedonian troll farms or Cambridge’s media manipulation?

You seem proud of the technical product you built, but have you considered how it can and probably will be abused?

3. hutzlibu ◴[14 Aug 20 06:53 UTC] No.24154616[source]▶
And do you feel good about it?

Technicaly it is a achievement, but are those vague things like ethics a concern to you?