Yet Apple is fine letting users browse Safari with an unfiltered internet. If their APIs can't facilitate safe permissions for user data, maybe they need to re-configure their security model to look more like the Mac. UNIX solved this decades ago.
Apple supports content-blockers for Safari. They have since 2015.
Would it have been better if they did it sooner? Sure! But the iPhone has currently had officially supported content-blocking for longer than it lacked it.
I wasn't aware safari allowed unfettered access to my phone and provided that to completely untrustworthy web apps and javascript. You have a source for this information? Would love to read more.
I wasn't aware that Apple could design a privacy model that doesn't depend on their direct curation. If Safari, iMessage and YouTube are acceptable services, why is an alternative App Store not?