The application only lasted a short week before Meta asked for it to be removed.
Meta is going through a very complicated year 2022 financially, between falling profits, insolent competition from TikTok and now The OG App.
An Instagram client that returns to the original experience of the social network
Instagram is today the application most pampered by Mark Zuckerberg and his teams in order to capture a younger audience and very popular with advertisers. The company has added several formats in quick succession with Stories, taken from Snapchat, or Reels, TikTok clones, to attract users and influencers and offer more advertising between each short video.
We can therefore easily imagine the reaction of the Meta teams to the announcement of The OG App, an Instagram clone that promised its users to rid them of advertisements while browsing. It also made it possible to delete Reels or account recommendations to return to the original essence of Instagram, namely photos of friends and community.
If you wanted to test this client on your iPhone, unfortunately for you, it is no longer possible to download it from the Apple App Store.
Meta claims a violation of the terms of use and has the application removed
Meta has confirmed that it has requested the removal of this application, which violates its terms of use. ” This app violates our policies and we are taking all appropriate enforcement action “, explained a spokesperson for the group. Apple confirmed the information by explaining the withdrawal by a breach of the rules of use of the App Store, which prohibit the use of third-party services without the authorization of their owners.
The developers of The OG App indeed seem to have overridden the rules of Meta to gain access to Instagram. Meta does not offer a programming interface to create an alternative client, the software teams analyzed the Android version of Instagram for a year to achieve their ends.
The developers of The OG App have since taken to Twitter and explained that their Facebook and Instagram accounts have also been banned by Meta.
If you have an Android smartphone, you can always download The OG App from the Google Play Store, but don’t delay too long. Google is likely to follow Apple and remove the app as well in the coming days.
Source : Engadget
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