[gregoriol]

If you trust Apple with what they do on your iPhone, you should trust the third-party with what they do inside their app, there is no difference.

If you need to know the details of what is done inside the third-party app, then that third-party is not trustworthy. Or you also need to know what is done inside iOS.

The problem is that in today world, we don't know who we can trust, and that the context might change over time. We all believe that Apple doesn't do shady stuff today, but has anyone proof? and will that change some day?

[gruez]

>If you trust Apple with what they do on your iPhone, you should trust the third-party with what they do inside their app, there is no difference.

Why is trust an all or nothing proposition? Why can't I trust an app to do whatever it wants within its sandbox, but not to get an unique identifier that can be shared between apps? It's not any different than sandboxing, where I trust the app to do whatever it wants in its sandbox, but not mess with my documents or OS.

[tonyedgecombe]

> there is no difference.

That’s not true, Facebook’s business model is inherently privacy invading.

[gregoriol]

Do you compare Facebook that knows about your friends and holidays to Apple iPhone+iPad+mac+homepod+watch+health+card+wallet+mail+contacts+calendar+passwords+... ?

[tonyedgecombe]

Apple makes money from selling me goods, Facebook makes money from selling my attention.

This is why I can trust Apple more than Facebook.