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Permissions for third party apps are pretty much identical to iOS now. People are always brigading these HN posts with useless snark because they think that Apple respects them.

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I think the main difference is the default. Android is now opt-out, iOS is opt-in. Defaults are significant.

Defaults of what exactly? Permissions default to off on Android as well. Trackers and analytics default to on on Android and on Apple devices (where Apple devices differ only in the fact that they split tracking from apps and OS itself and enable Apples own tracking by default and prevent non-Apple tracking).

Nevertheless, there's a massive amount of tracking going on in Apples ecosystem as well - all big analytics, marketing and mobile data services (like Facebooks's SDKs, Mixpanel, etc.) are iOS first and still provide massive amount of behavioural data on iOS users first and support Android second.

I think guelo is specifically referring to the Advertising ID that allows for apps' cross tracking. In Android, this ID is on by default, while in iOS is off by default.

Regaring the permission managers, I agree that both are currently on par.

Your comment would have been free of useless snark too if not for the last sentence.

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