You raise a valid point, but your original answer, to me, seems to normalize tracking to some extend: “since lawnmowing company dont care about your data, hence ads that tracks you is nit a big deal”, which is not the case.

I think you're getting me mixed up with someone else - I'm just a rando who jumped in

I think a better argument is that “since you are already on android, so google will have all your data anyway”.

That was in fact exactly what i was arguing

google probably dont watch your every move

They do in fact watch your every move - Ok i was taking that one a bit literally, but honestly they really already do know everything they need to know. And let's not forget that everything on your Lemmy is public - Do you really think that Google, Meta, and the rest of the usual suspects don't have data crawlers on the fediverse hoovering up data and linking it to their existing shadow profiles?

I 100% agree that it would be best for Sync to have absolutely no tracking, but I'm just a bit baffled at everyone acting like this is some nefarious thing that Sync is doing that is in anyway novel. Do y'all really have 0 apps installed with google ads? Do y'all really all have custom ROMs flashed on your phone? None of you are reading this comment from Google Chrome, Edge, or Safari?

My point isn't that ad tracking is good, it's that saying that Sync is garbage because it has ads (and so, by necessity also has ad tracking) is almost certainly hypocritical in the case of every person whose saying it. "Let he without spyware on his phone cast the first stone" or something like that lol