Correction. The Google Android system (containing Google Apps) tracks everything you do.
The AOSP-based Android system with no Google Apps installed tracks nothing by default - there is no Google Play Services layer in it to initiate that tracking.
If you install Graphene or Lineage OS, you don't even log into the phone with an identity - which you always have to do with a Google Android phone.
Okay so I install that 1st party app that Google assures me cross-their-heart-and-hope-to-die uses encryption and respects my privacy, and the publisher - including Google itself - turns around and sell the data to every Dick, Tom and Vladimir on the internet. Because that's what happens, otherwise where does their income comes from?
So what's new here apart from a false sense of security?
Absolutely nothing. Google don't want you installing a Google-free Android build on your device, that's the reason they are using this "flowery language" now.
The Aurora Store app that can be downloaded from the Android F-Droid repository allows anonymous access to any free apps in the Google Play Store. When you use it to search for an app in the Play Store, it shows how many trackers are built into each app and the name of the trackers - of course, most of them are owned by Google.
This is probably the most important piece of information you need when it comes to security and privacy, yet no mention of Google themselves giving you that information.
.. but the basic problem is the android system that tracks absolutely everything you do.
Correction. The Google Android system (containing Google Apps) tracks everything you do.
The AOSP-based Android system with no Google Apps installed tracks nothing by default - there is no Google Play Services layer in it to initiate that tracking.
If you install Graphene or Lineage OS, you don't even log into the phone with an identity - which you always have to do with a Google Android phone.
Okay so I install that 1st party app that Google assures me cross-their-heart-and-hope-to-die uses encryption and respects my privacy, and the publisher - including Google itself - turns around and sell the data to every Dick, Tom and Vladimir on the internet. Because that's what happens, otherwise where does their income comes from?
So what's new here apart from a false sense of security?
Absolutely nothing. Google don't want you installing a Google-free Android build on your device, that's the reason they are using this "flowery language" now.
The Aurora Store app that can be downloaded from the Android F-Droid repository allows anonymous access to any free apps in the Google Play Store. When you use it to search for an app in the Play Store, it shows how many trackers are built into each app and the name of the trackers - of course, most of them are owned by Google.
This is probably the most important piece of information you need when it comes to security and privacy, yet no mention of Google themselves giving you that information.
It's a moot po