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[โ€“] Windswept@lemmy.world 29 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Loss of 3rd party data sales from the tracking embedded in their apps would be my guess.

[โ€“] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Yeah - in an ideal world, the dev would have the means (and legal standing) to challenge this, just to force the fuckers to admit it in court.

Not that it isn't written into their ToS somewhere - just would love them to admit exactly how that harms them so much, financially speaking. Shine a light on the whole thing.