LOL. Instead of bowing down to one master, you chose to bow down to the other?
But if you choose to buy phones from ad companies, it's your decision.
They can encode it in contact in a second and choose not to.
Meanwhile; have you you seen Google stand up to the despicable behaviour of Facebook? No? I wonder why.
Apple has invested heavily in this vein.
Like when Apple dropped end-to-end encryption on iCloud because FBI asked them politely.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-fbi-icloud-exclusiv...
Apple owns your phone.
Problem solved. You get to keep using apple app stores, and other people can choose something else.
"It [privacy] is a value that is so deep in us. Personal information can be used and abused and even weaponized in ways that can be really, really destructive. Often in a way that's not at all apparent to the person who might be giving up that information." and "These devices are so intimately a part of our lives and contain so much of what we're thinking and where we've been and who we've been with that users deserve and need control of that information. Abuse ranges from creepy to dangerous".
He says more about privacy in that same interview, recommended listen.
