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Comment on: Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
> What does thumbing their noses mean? They have been paying while continuing their behavior, or not paying at all?Malicious compliance. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Games_v._Apple"While Apple implemented App Store policies to allow developers to link to alternative payment options, the policies still required the developer to provide a 27% revenue share back to Apple, and heavily restricted how they could be shown in apps. Epic filed complaints that these changes violated the ruling, and in April 2025 Rogers found for Epic that Apple had willfully violated her injunction, p