Yeah, so, Google already has this data about you. What they're doing here is trying to reduce the specificity of information given to advertisers about your behaviors, and simultaneously give you the ability to never inform specific third parties about your interest in the specific topics you choose

I see this as a good thing. They were literally already getting and using all of this data. In that case I'd much rather have some control over who knows which things about me, rather than leaving it entirely up to Google

Any App that shows any ads gets deleted right on the spot. Simple as that.

I might have misunderstood this but Android really trying to push this as tracking as a privacy upgrade

~~Android~~ Google

This may also be known as privacy washing, but as another comment said, this way might be better than just not getting this choice at all

"Privacy."

They keep using this word. I do not think it means what they think it means.

The ads I get are frequently in a language I dont speak. Thats how you know they can't track you.

Oh fun, it's that garbage from Chrome now in Android

Well... I don't use any apps that show ads. I'd rather not use my phone at all. And if Android adds more tracking itself it may be time to give Graphene a shot.

"Please just let me track you one last time baby"

well it's an improvement...
basically the tracking is still there but runs locally on your phone, so google only knows this

someone with ip 1.2.3.4 is interested in sports, cats and videogames and is looking to purchase a new monitor

(and the info is sent with every ad request, statelessly) google promises they won't associate these requests with ip addresses, but I won't trust them.

instead of a full log like:

user x with tracking id 12345 visited catworld.com at 10:34:56 PM and stayed there for 35 seconds
user x with tracking id 12345 made a purchase on website shoptech.com and was scrolling through the monitors page for 10 minutes.

it's still tracking but it sucks less i guess...
and making it a default is probably a great move

(I'd rather opt out of any form of tracking tho)

Dont use Google Android

Smartphones are Spyware and Data harvest devices by definition, all of them. I get goosebumps every time when I see people using their cell phones to payfor banking, discount apps from supermarkets, saving sensitive data in these gadgets. Almost all cases of large data leaks of sensitive data in the past are due to this, the unconscious use of these devices. They are surveillance devices of large companies for commercial purposes.

That they now offer you as privacy feature to choose who they are going to sell your data to, is more than ironic, they piss on your face and say that it is raining and people believe it.

Although you can turn off the ads they can still track & harvest your data in all directions because it's google

I do my best to set things up so that I don't see any ads (running DNS66 for example). But if I had to see ads, I'd prefer them to be irrelevant. That way they're easier to ignore. I don't need to do any favors for the corporate giants trying to milk me for every penny.

Google offering privacy by profiling and sharing app usage info

There, I fixed it for you