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?
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It's pretty multifaceted. I've got a half dozen on-device blocklists enabled, along with some app-specific filters.
Due to some Android quirk I've also been unable to use their DNS