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My concern here is that Facebook will require their app to be sideloaded so that they can continue abusing their users. Now I don’t use Facebook, but at least I know my family members are somewhat protected from Facebook by Apples rules. If their Facebook app were sideloaded it would be open season for Facebook.

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On Android, there's nothing stopping Facebook from doing that right now. Why haven't they?

Because Google isn’t preventing them from doing tracking and other nefarious things. In fact, Google themselves are doing it.

I'm guessing it's because Google Play is more lenient than the App Store when it comes to privacy.

I imagine Facebook is big enough to get a deal with apple that has alternative rules

I think there was some fairly tight integration ios/facebook in an earlier version of iOS. Seems to have been removed. I don't think Apple would want to get into bed with Facebook now, their reputation as a supporter of privacy would be damaged.

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