Apple and Meta ban Instagram clone that doesn’t show ads

Apple removed its mobile app It was renamed The OG App from its Store a day after its official launch. To make matters worse, the developers said their entire team was permanently disabled. Banned from Facebook and Instagram because of their connection to the service. We can say that Instagram, with 500 million active users a day, is a real monster of social media. The company’s engineers are constantly making changes to the influencer’s favorite vehicle.

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More ads, more distractions, everything is being done to make people stay on the app longer. Much to the dismay of users who did not appreciate these changes and mostly wanted to revert to a simpler experience. OG App aims to filter the content of your Instagram feed, create personalized posts and remove ads, Reels, Stories and other recommendations. In summary, the mobile app for Android and iOS offers to relive the Instagram experience that its first users were able to experience when the service launched twelve years ago.

OG App wants to reinvent Instagram by leveraging the social network’s API

Apple probably has OG App removed from Store at Meta’s request, owner of Instagram. The social network confirmed that it has taken action against this new app, which, it should be said, works on flower beds. Meta’s policy prohibits sites that reproduce, in whole or in part, the content of an existing site (in this case, Instagram). The risk of the latter is losing users and therefore revenue from the official application.

Note that the OG App is still available on Android and the developers are asking iOS device users to put themselves on a waiting list. That’s why they didn’t lose hope of returning to the Apple Store one day. The idea is very good and praiseworthy; There are many funny references in this sense on the developers’ site: “Social networks distract me all day long, preventing me from doing my homework. They prevent me from reaching my true potential in life.” But when the developers of The OG App acknowledge that Instagram’s API on Android has been reverse engineered To program their applications, we realize that the future of their services is greatly compromised.