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 happens 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.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.