Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Friday, August 9th, 2024. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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Here's what you missed today in the world of Tech.

Apple has debuted new rules and fees for apps in the European Union that link out to the web for

purchases including allowing links to any website and has also removed some other

restrictions but with apparently some new fees as well quoting 9 to 5 Mac.

Previously Apple enforced strict rules that dictated how apps in the EU were allowed to link out.

This included requirements that the link be statically defined and go directly to their own website

without any parameters to identify the logged in the

user in the URL.

This limited the ability of apps to directly send users to a

web page where they could pay and add upgrades to their

account.

Under today's changes, all of those restrictions are now gone.

Apps can offer actionable links with as many dynamic URLs as they please.

These links can take the user to anywhere including as a way to promote other sales channels like alternative

app marketplaces. The URLs can include parameters as long as those

parameters are not used for advertising or user profiling. These links also used to

be required to kick the user outside of the current app and into their web browser like Safari.

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