Google is facing a lawsuit for tracking people even when they opt out
Interesting. Between this and the Incognito Mode lawsuit, it seems some lawyers are trying to make a case that companies have the burden of making their systems plain-language understandable to the consumer, not technically understandable. "Incognito mode" has never meant "Third party sites can't track you," but one could argue its plain-language understanding should be that. Similarly, disabling "Web & App Activity" actually means Android's built-in tracking is disabled, but does nothing about third-party site tracking (which is what Firebase is; it's a framework for third parties building usage tracking into apps that <i>happens</i> to be owned by Google but doesn't drop its data into the same hopper as the Android project's tracking). One can clearly see how turning off Web & App Activity tracking could cause a person to assume systems like Firebase are also disabled, but it doesn't.<p>I don't know what the right answer is yet. Manufacturer responsibility v. personal responsibility is an old question, and it's why we have court systems.