I wish the thing is that simple. The reality is more concerning than petty data gathering. Today's smartphone users don't use the generic web browser. When they

I wish the thing is that simple. The reality is more concerning than petty data gathering. Today's smartphone users don't use the generic web browser. When they heard that there is a trending web service X and they decided to try, they search from the app store for the X app, blindly install the top hit app completely disregarding whether it's official, unofficial or complete malicious fake app. That's why most of the modern web service must provide the brainless apps that is just a wrapper of the browser. Otherwise, people use whatever random garbage app they found at the app store that contains the service name and believe that is the web service you provide. It is my opinion that smartphone makes people dumb. Or maybe it's reverse so the smartphone allow even the dumb people get access to the computer and the Internet.