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> Ads, Auth and analytics

So two of the three parts that are native are there to make it a worse user experience?

If you seriously think analytics makes for a worse user experience, then you're speaking out of ignorance.

Analytics tell developers exactly where bugs and crashes occur.

And on which devices or versions of the OS the problem is.

Without analytics it would take weeks/months to figure out exactly what line of code is causing the issue. Heck, the developers might NEVER KNOW that the software has an issue.

Apps would just keep crashing on users for years. And developers would have no idea why users were abandoning their product.

Nobody that has any idea what they're talking about would say that analytics makes for a worse user experience.

But if he needed to have ads, what are the chances that analytics were added to “measure engagement”?

The native ads module on both Android and iOS can do that...so, I dunno, ZERO?

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