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
True, but we don't get to choose a whole lot when it comes to Google. I personally don't have Google Services on my phone and would like to keep it that way - so I'm not up to date what Google is pulling off these days :)