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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by janc_ on Thursday November 23, 2023 @05:50PM (#38398572)
About 99.9% of apps in the Google Play Store contain spyware (and I doubt it's much better in Apple's store?).
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Re:Developer account removed by Apple – $108,878 frozen by judge2020 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @07:44PM (#38399537)
There's a difference between spyware and a library that sends the company usage details about how you use their app. Even apps with ads are only forbidden from using bespoke APIs (other than the built-in prompt "allow <x>" to track you across other apps and websites) to track users' activity and correlate it with other sessions.
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