This is why we need an alternative opensource mobile operating systems and fast. Big Tech is essentially a psyop by the US for surveillance.
Your phone number, emails, logins, each have unique identifiers and even if you use a "private" app like signal, they have your number to link it to multiple other unique attributes embedded by Google, Apple, and Microsoft to create a tracking profile on you.
And no matter how opensource or privacy oriented, the companies they tell you they are, there will be some closed source implementation for plausible deniability. like the signal server, apple "privacy" or some shit they have you believe.
It's like hollywood whitewashing USAs atrocities and the whole world applauding it, but now Big Tech is onboard too. And the world still hasn't learned a thing.
Apparently, there's a lot of people going around, anytime this comes up saying this is nothing new. There's nothing new to the end users, who never cared. But this is going to make it hard for tinkerers to figure out shady shit Google is trying to pull.
GrapheneOS came out saying that they'll not be affected because they're planning to get OEM partners with access to internal branch. They've also mentioned they stopped reporting vulnerabilities to Google. Google doesn't want being bothered with fixing vulnerabilities. So there's that too
might be a concentrated PR attempt to downplay the change. idk