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FollowFacebook has been publicly sparring with Apple over an upcoming privacy update that's expected to impact the social network's ad business.Queenie WongSenior WriterQueenie Wong is a senior writer for CNET News, who focuses on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. She previously covered social networks for The Mercury News in San Jose. Before that, she wrote about politics and education for the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. A native of Southern California, she took her first journalism class in middle school.2 min readThe public feud between keeps heating up.&nbsp;Facebook CEO has made it clear before he isn't happy with Apple's upcoming update that will prompt users to give apps, including the social network he co-founded, permission to track their activity across other apps and the web. Apple, on the other hand, has said the change is meant to give users more control over their data. Apple is expected to roll out the change in early spring.&nbsp;On Thursday, Zuckerberg reiterated his concerns about Apple's update in a discussion on the invite-only audio app Clubhouse, noting the update could harm small businesses and developers more than Facebook, which makes billions of dollars from ads every quarter."The reality&nbsp;is that I'm confident that we're gonna be able to manage through that situation well and we'll be in a good position. I think it's possible that we may even be in a stronger position if Apple's changes encourage more businesses to conduct commerce on our platforms," he said. Zuckerberg expects, though, that small businesses and developers will have a harder time navigating through the changes.&nbsp;Facebook isn't the only company that has a beef with Apple. Zuckerberg was joined by Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, who brought up that the music streaming service filed an against Apple with the European Commission in 2019. The complaint partly centers on the 30% cut Apple takes from all in-app purchases."My view is that this is very damaging, not only to Spotify, but the entire kind of broader ecosystem of app developers and creators and this is also why we filed the formal complaint," Ek said.Building off Ek's comments, Zuckerberg added that Facebook had "to go back and forth for a long time with Apple" to prevent the iPhone maker from taking a cut from a news product Facebook built and other features during the pandemic that the social network didn't take a revenue share from. "I do think that this is a big issue," he said.Apple didn't immediately respond to a request for comment. In November, said it'd lower its App Store commission to 15% for small businesses earning up to $1 million per year as part of a new program.Zuckerberg and Ek were participating in a show on Clubhouse called , head of content at the San Francisco venture capital firm SignalFire.Get the CNET Apple Report newsletterReceive the latest news and reviews on Apple products, iOS updates and more. Delivered Fridays.

FollowFacebook has been publicly sparring with Apple over an upcoming privacy update that's expected to impact the social network's ad business.Queenie WongSenior WriterQueenie Wong is a senior writer for CNET News, who focuses on social media companies including Facebook's parent company Meta, Twitter and TikTok. She previously covered social networks for The Mercury News in San Jose. Before that, she wrote about politics and education for the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. A native of Southern California, she took her first journalism class in middle school.2 min readThe public feud...

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Queenie Wong is a staff reporter for CNET News, who focuses on social media companies including Facebook and Twitter. She previously covered social networks for The Mercury News in San Jose. Before that, she wrote about politics and education for the Statesman Journal in Salem, Oregon. A native of Southern California, she took her first journalism class in middle school.

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