why addy.io over simplelogin?

helping children learn to read sounds like an ideal use case for an LLM. An app that utilizes its own users interactions to enhance its own capabilities is not inherently malicious and is vastly different from selling user data to third parties or training on scraped content from others.

And what are you even talking about with the “children could face disciplinary or legal consequences for noncompliance” nonsense. where was that in the article?

extensions on mobile are published as normal apps, so yes the process/requirements are the same as publishing any app on the app store

Safari on mobile iOS/iPad have supported extensions since iOS 15 (2021), it supported limited 3rd party content blockers since iOS 9 (2015)