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What you're describing isn't spyware though.
I'm not dying on this hill because at a point it would just be quibbling over semantics. Your point isn't wrong - I know there are options built into OSes that can be used to monitor user behaviour - but this isn't spyware in the same way backdooring shit into android would be
No argument that the end result is pretty similar - but one requires exploits to get some shit on the phone. The other is innate to the OS.
It rarely is.