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?
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?
MicroG is open source tho and only talks to Google if you explicitely activate it
No its not. They download Google Binaries which run as system apps and have privileged access.
They practice badness enumeration in some form, while their permission model (only activating what is needed) is a better approach but incomplete.
Any app that relies on Play has those libraries implemented, so they could show ads etc. on their own. But with microG they have a component with privileged system access, in contrast to sandboxed play where no component is privileged.
That’s completely false, where did you get that info from?