[theshrike79]

> On Android it's much easier to intercept and modify the behavior of apps and tell the system to disregard signatures and things of the sort.

This really doesn't increase my confidence in Android as an OS. I'd rather prefer it to be really hard to intercept and modify the behavior of apps and to make the system disregard signatures.

[dheera]

When I say it's easier, that doesn't mean any app can do it in user space, it's only easier because the OS itself is open source, you can modify it to your liking, and there is a decent community around alternate (also open source) images such as LineageOS which can give you very good control over what user space apps can and cannot do.

If you use an open source version of Android you can prevent even Google from tracking you. With iOS no matter how hard you try you can't really stop Apple from getting your info.