So because they don’t have fine grained permissions around network connections (which sounds like a usability nightmare) they don’t protect you?

What about:

- Apple’s limiting of advertising identifiers and requiring permission to track users across apps

- increasingly fine grained location access including ‘Only allow once’ and warnings when an app is tracking you in background

- sandboxed photo access so apps don’t get access to all your photos

- requiring developers submit privacy questionnaires with their app updates and showing how data is collected in each app

- supporting creating private email aliases for signing up for services

Just to name a few in the last few years.