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A comment on AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iOS devices. Parent comment

Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by FreakyT on Sunday June 20, 2021 @01:26PM (#27572105)
On Android, there's nothing stopping Facebook from doing that right now. Why haven't they?
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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by FearlessNebula on Sunday June 20, 2021 @08:45PM (#27575168)
Because Google isn’t preventing them from doing tracking and other nefarious things. In fact, Google themselves are doing it.
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Re:AltStore – An alternative app store for non-jailbroken iO... by thekyle on Sunday June 20, 2021 @06:36PM (#27574486)
I'm guessing it's because Google Play is more lenient than the App Store when it comes to privacy.
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