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All those apps are closed source and encrypt data, so comparing based on reverse engineering the code seems not an important point of distinction.

being closed source does not mean we can't analyze its behavior. the recent revelation of tiktok's clipboard watching? what were they trying? waiting for some unsuspecting password-manager apps?

Didn't the Facebook app get in trouble for hoovering up user data too? Seems like that's already setting a pretty low bar for privacy.

But is it so really?

Last year there were articles about how Facebook sdk collects data from each app that integrates it, even before you login with Facebook. To me it still looks like a much wider data collection than what a single app can do.

imo, this is even more eye-rolling situation - https://github.com/facebook/facebook-ios-sdk/issues/1374