Interesting to see them not liking the non-official stores linked due to the Google restriction on the Huawei device, wonder if they would have liked something like Aurora Store of MicroG more (as in was it really about the potential for maleware or the sources not being seen as “standard”).
An interesting time for smartphones to be doing things like this/having these capabilities found out (Apple photo scanning), but perhaps fervor over other things is taking the spotlight so they slip through - there seemed to be a huge push for privacy on mobile devices from “the average Joe” in the USA right after the election but I don’t think it kept up steam (could definitely be wrong)?