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I'm not saying it is the case, but considering other tactics employed by ICE, this sounds like something they could deploy as a honeypot to profile potential targets.

Is that a difference from publishing an app on the app store?

They could and they could even make it a PWA so it would be on the home screen and able to send notifications.

But they only want to support native iOS for whatever reason (they've listed their reasons: https://www.iceblock.app/android, I just don't personally believe them to be technically accurate/truthful).

Answered by the developer here: https://youtu.be/Pm4tC2Mnabs?t=25358

Does not seem like a thought out answer.

It's harder to be anon with an app that with a web page because you have to cater for all the web things PLUS Android.

It is a webpage, they just had an app to view it.