No, I don't trust Google either. But at least Google is somewhat open about the fact that they collect the data. I can have a look at it and I have settings to influence and even delete (probably) what is being collected.

That is vastly different from a spyware module installed clandestinely together with a software I paid for that sends data about me to somewhere and somebody then does something with it that I don't know about.

No, they don't, and they are just as subject to the GDPR as anybody else is, in fact, probably more given the EU decisions lately and because they're a huge big, fat target.

The distinction here is that they have been doing it a very long time, and user privacy actually is a core tenet of what they worry about at Google.

You can install browser extensions to block that kind of tracking, or you can go nuclear (as I have) by disabling JavaScript altogether. When I buy a game, I do not have this freedom.