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Comment by supriyo-biswas

Well, I assume now that the EU DMA is a thing, Facebook would reconsider distributing their actually malware laden binaries (instead of simple ads/analytics) through their own app store.

There was a similar incident[1] (for which I can't unfortunately locate the original source) where Uber tried embedding an exploit to retrieve IMEI numbers without consent, which was caught by Apple's review process. So while there may be some legitimate complaints, the review process does keep the worst behavior out of their curated app store.

[1] https://youtu.be/KAsKPwfkiDw?t=433

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