I might have misunderstood this but is Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade, simply because it let’s us choose which of our interests we want advertisers to have access to?

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I might have misunderstood this but Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade

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This may also be known as privacy washing, but as another comment said, this way might be better than just not getting this choice at all

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True, but we don’t get to choose a whole lot when it comes to Google. I personally don’t have Google Services on my phone and would like to keep it that way - so I’m not up to date what Google is pulling off these days :)

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