Google in recent years has felt like the Lyft to Facebook's Uber. It does a lot of the same evil things, but uses just enough restraint and decorum to let Facebook remain the one in the hot-seat. It avoids scrutiny by simply being less icky.
Many of Google's services have a great deal more basic utility than anything Facebook provides. I think that also provides additional cover for them.
When Facebook pushes for more data collection, it almost always looks way more self-serving than when Google does.
That still doesn't make it good, but it helps. Whereas Facebook literally created a shell-company to mislead both users and Apple (who was trying to act in the users' best interest).
I wouldn't ever think that anything called "Facebook XXX" is a facebook app, even more so if it's clearly sold by a shell company. It was hiding, even though it was ironically in plain sight.
For any sane person, the only way to know the "official" ones are to check the developer account, in this case, it was not Facebook.
Hence, for any sane person, the only reasonable assumption was that it was not a Facebook sponsored one.
I would so gladly pay money for a version of Google's services which was 1) client-side encrypted, 2) not mined whatsoever by Google - even the metadata, and 3) ad-free. They really do make useful, high-quality software, but I refuse to give them my life's data. I switched to using Apple for everything cloud-related, and while Apple Maps isn't as bad as people think, and Safari, Notes, and Calendar get the job done, they're also not as good as Google's equivalents.
Finally Apple has to stop responding to requests for ban reason and send out automated emails that their decision is final and binding.
This is how Google behaves with it's users.
Also: yes.
However they did not, as far as we know, track government officials' locations to evade investigation (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/04/technology/uber-federal-i...). It seems you have to have a man-child as your founder and CEO before you'll do something that brazen.
In my non-tech circle of friends both are equally regarded to as evil spying megacorps.
I.e. here people at least notice and care. Every other community I've been a part of - at workplace, at hackerspace, at home - everyone's just "so they do spy on you, who cares ¯\_(ツ)_/¯".