| ▲ | etchalon 2 days ago |
| Honestly, if it wasn't for Musk' ties to Trump, I'm betting they just would have pulled it. |
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| ▲ | throwaway27448 2 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Twitter is already a bit of a special case because porn is so accessible (although, you must opt in through the browser and cannot opt in through the app). |
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| ▲ | nozzlegear a day ago | parent [-] | | Discord works the same way I think, so I'm not sure Twitter is special in that regard (there exist a myriad of porn servers on discord, and the company is constantly getting in hot water because of its popularity among kids/teenagers). | | |
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| ▲ | afavour 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Yeah, reading this my reaction is “so why didn’t they do it?”. A less prominent app would have been fulled first and notified later. |
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| ▲ | deepfriedbits 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | It has a massive user base. And political connections. And lawsuit money. Apple (and Google) will absolutely treat these publishers differently than a random app developer. | |
| ▲ | kotaKat a day ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Apple doesn't provide any enforcement for apps that are in the top percentile. https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/how-the-rewards-app-freeca... You'd think Apple would go after the top-charting apps that are leveraging the scam companies (like Monopoly Go and Disney Solitaire) for actively engaging with scams like this to pump their own numbers up... (https://old.reddit.com/r/FreeCash/comments/1i4132r/monopoly_... - like this. What the everloving hell? Straight up enticing users to shove themselves into a game, expose themselves to ads galore, and then keep goading them into blowing even more money in the partner app under the guise of 'real cash'.) | |
| ▲ | polski-g 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Because it makes Android a more attractive option than it otherwise would have been. | | |
| ▲ | throwaway27448 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Maybe—I don't think anyone is choosing between the two based on access to grok of all things. I think it's simply treated as an extension of twitter, which will almost certainly never be forced out while it remains the premier app for diplomacy and AI porn. | |
| ▲ | nozzlegear a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | That argument didn't stop them from pulling Fortnite in its hay day though. | | |
| ▲ | etchalon a day ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, Apple doesn't care about losing money or pissing off a large user-base. They assume they have enough money and they'll always have the larger user-base. They care about people pissing in their ocean. |
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| ▲ | fatata123 a day ago | parent | prev [-] |
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