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Yep I think both smartphone platforms have done an horrific job as gaming platforms. There's a UK CMA (Competition Markets Authority) complaint accusing games of posing as suitable for all ages in app stores eg 4+, and then claiming they are only for 13+ in their privacy policies to serve ads to children. Both Google and Apple are cited. It's going to be very interesting because it seems quite blatant.

> It also claims that Apple and Google have a “special responsibility to protect consumers’ interests” due to their “effective monopoly” on app stores. Apple and Google’s lack of oversight “constitute abuses of their respective dominant positions,” it says.

https://mobilegamer.biz/apple-google-king-supercell-and-more...



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