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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by nemothekid on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:55AM (#24443488)
>They are called anti virus (also check for malware, trojan, backdoor, rootkit etc. etc.)

1. And most anti-virus are considered a scam by most people

2. Apps that make egregious use of device APIs to implement tracking won't be flagged as a virus.

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Re:Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google by romanoderoma on Saturday September 12, 2020 @08:59AM (#24452078)
> 1. And most anti-virus are considered a scam by most people

Many people consider iPhone prices a scam

and yet...

> 2. Apps that make egregious use of device APIs to implement tracking won't be flagged as a virus.

That's true for the iPhone as well

Apple itself track its users.

from a news report in the Washington Post

> Apple says, “What happens on your iPhone stays on your iPhone.” Our privacy experiment showed 5,400 hidden app trackers guzzled our data — in a single week

The point was that the check could be implemented by third party software on the device or by a software specifically crafted by the publishers, you don't need the Apple check, which is also very opaque.

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