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This is a near industry wide abusive practice.

Facebook started forcing companies to use Facebook Credits and then forced a 30% cut. Zynga balked. Zynga and Facebook came to secret arrangement. If you were smaller, you were SOL.

EDIT: https://venturebeat.com/2011/12/12/zynga-history/11/

Netflix didn't want to pay Apple the 30% cut. Apple tried to keep Netflix. Eventually, Netflix got rid of new app store subscriptions.

EDIT: Apple offered Netflix concessions. https://9to5mac.com/2021/05/05/netflix-apple-in-app-purchase...

Look at Amazon's bookstore which forces sellers to not offer their books at a lower price elsewhere.

EDIT: https://lawstreetmedia.com/tech/bookstore-files-antitrust-cl...



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