[Txmm]

Even with controls on the device companies act in bad faith and take liberties with your privacy - I was going to the beach yesterday and my friend shared his location through messenger, to view it I had to share my precise location too - why? You can deny the permission all you want but that won’t stop them blocking features unless you tick the box, even if it is unrelated or not needed for the functionality.

[throw10920]

That's a clear example of a bad technical control, whose fix can still be implemented in iOS without the App Store. It's pretty trivial to add a feature to iOS that allows you to fake your location - there was an Android fork that had that feature for a while a few years ago.

> You can deny the permission all you want but that won’t stop them blocking features unless you tick the box

Many permissions (camera, mic, location, etc.) are trivial for the OS to spoof and don't require app store vetting.