[disgruntledphd2]

It's a lie, based on what their sales teams were telling friends of mine who work in the F2P gaming industry.

And they're really not playing by the same rules as everyone else given that they own the platform that all this activity takes place on, so they get basically all iOS users data without needing any permission dialogue.

This is literally part of their ad sales pitch and ads is the fastest growing part of the services business.

So maybe they don't do all this stuff now (but they don't need to because they receive installs and conversions by the very nature of running the platform).

Like, google could make the same claim Apple make here and it would be true for Android.