If you want saftey and privacy, don't use Facebook in any form. The App Store does not protect you, the operating system does.

I don’t use Facebook anymore, except that I use it to enjoy my Oculus Quest. I am not ready to have a “burning my Quest” experience, as satisfying as that might feel.

> People like my wife and me want a safe, privacy environment and Apple delivers

I agreed with that and have been an Apple fan for ages, until Apple banned Parler and not Twitter. Now I'm a little jaded on their privacy brand.

> People like my wife and me want a safe, privacy environment and Apple delivers

Yet iOS exploits are cheaper than Android exploits because iOS exploits are so plentiful[1][2] in comparison.

There's no reason you'd have to use anything but Apple's App Store if Apple's monopoly on mobile app distribution was broken.

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/05/14/zerodium_ios_flaws/

[2] http://zerodium.com/program.html

There plentiful because some many people where looking at them, because they where so expensive in the past IMO. There are other advantages as well, less device fragmentation makes it a lot easier to sell exploits that work on all phones.

I would not be surprised if over all android phones where less secure. One of the reasons being the device fragmentation.

Apple has also recently taken decent strides to make one of the main 0 click vectors (Messages) harder to exploit with iOS 14.

> People like my wife and me want a safe, privacy environment and Apple delivers.

I’m not sure that Apple persevering privacy also requires them to also break antitrust laws.