recap: News stories about platform use have been sourcing Sensor Tower for their bylines. ST sells data about platform usage. That data is harvested (without e

recap: News stories about platform use have been sourcing Sensor Tower for their bylines. ST sells data about platform usage. That data is harvested (without explicit user consent) by mobile apps that don't have anything to do with analytics or data collection. eg: screen time managers, games, vpn, etc. Some of the sites for these apps push users away from the store and into sideloading. This seems fairly sketchy. Further, it's disappointing that news orgs aren't strongly vetting the integrity of companies providing the data for their news stories. Depressing even.