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Does anyone expect their information not to be monetized from any "free" application?

(with the possible exception of an open-source application built and distributed by an open-source advocate, e.g. Firefox, K-9 mail, sipdroid, DDG, etc.)

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This is explicitly against the App Store terms of service, so yes it's unexpected.

If you really start taking the App Store terms of service and apply them to the letter to the Apps in the store quite a few very popular apps would vanish.

And I wish hey would, for these kind of reasons. So many popular apps flagrantly violate the rules but get to stay because their popular (Uber, Facebook, etc).

Lots of minor ones are seemingly ignored. They break rules too but Apple doesn't seem to care.

Isn't that what should happen though? I also doubt they'd vanish - iOS is too big of an audience to ignore, so unless the Terms are particularly onerous, I'd imagine most would just fall in line.

Yes. When I opt-out of sharing location information, I expect the app not to monetize my location. That's what opting out should mean.

I agree with the sentiment, but what we turn off is iOS "Location Services." It's not really possible to "opt out of sharing location information."

It's like, if I opt out of showing someone ID, I don't expect that to protect me if they guess my age some other way.

So I'm not surprised at being triangulated. The incentives (mis)align that way.

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