{"id":7187,"date":"2022-09-28T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/apple-removes-russian-facebook-competitor-vk-from-app-store\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:37:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T08:37:17","slug":"apple-removes-russian-facebook-competitor-vk-from-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/apple-removes-russian-facebook-competitor-vk-from-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple removes Russian Facebook competitor VK from App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company says British sanctions compel it to remove the social media app from its store globally<\/p>\n<p>Apple has removed VK, Russia\u2019s homegrown Facebook competitor, from its App Store globally, citing conflicts with British sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on the social network\u2019s website, the company said the app would continue to work on smartphones that had already installed it before the takedown, but warned users that \u201cthere may be difficulties with notifications and payments\u201d as a result.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2022\/sep\/28\/vk-apple-removes-app-store-russian-social-media\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/64ed5f3e651cf4bb24d419301081404c5841128a\/0_0_4382_2630\/master\/4382.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e61e135b817cd26d5755b6efeb73bd69\" title=\"Apple removes Russian Facebook competitor VK from App Store\" \/>Company says British sanctions compel it to remove the social media app from its store globally<br \/>\nApple has removed VK, Russia\u2019s homegrown Facebook competitor, from its App Store globally, citing conflicts with British sanctions.<br \/>\nIn a statement on the social network\u2019s website, the company said the app would continue to work on smartphones that had already installed it before the takedown, but warned users that \u201cthere may be difficulties with notifications and payments\u201d as a result. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company says British sanctions compel it to remove the social media app from its store globally Apple has removed VK, Russia\u2019s homegrown Facebook competitor, from its App Store globally, citing conflicts with British sanctions. In a statement on the social network\u2019s website, the company said the app would continue to work on smartphones that had &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/28\/apple-removes-russian-facebook-competitor-vk-from-app-store\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Apple removes Russian Facebook competitor VK from App Store<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}