And, if they don't, I hope Apple beats them up on how this is a unique feature of iPhone re: protecting your privacy - the value of which was just quantifiably proven by how much it impacted Facebook to block it.
You hope that google, an advertising company, will follow apple, a hardware/service company, to block trackers and diminishes the effectiveness of ads?
Even if, by any chance, google made a move against tracking, I only believe in google reducing the effectiveness of their adversaries (like removing third party cookies) not themselves.
Google could do the same thing.
The thing is - Google DOESN'T track you on Android unless you opt-in already. They're pretty sneaky about getting people to opt-in. But they could do this, and it wouldn't even hurt them.
But maybe it would bring regulation? Maybe it's coming? One can hope...
The market should have way more devices, OSes, and shouldn't rely on advertising.
The DOJ needs to break up both Apple and Google so we have fairer competition and better options for consumers and small businesses.
I really hope Framework, Pinephone, Fairphone, DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, et al. can find cracks in the giants and grow. But it's really hard when they have so much unassailable power.
As for GNU/Linux based phones, it is always the same OpenMoko like story, I don't have high hopes for them.
https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/answ...