Ironically, this is mainly happening because Android is so "open" (to carriers and OEMs). Android's openness was never intended to be for users (if we're talkin

Ironically, this is mainly happening because Android is so "open" (to carriers and OEMs). Android's openness was never intended to be for users (if we're talking licenses and such, not feature-wise, which is just a design decision Google makes, like whether or not to have more advanced camera menus, and so on). It's hard to say whether Google would sell everyone's Android's data anyway, if it had 100% control over Android, but I imagine it wouldn't let carriers or OEMs add whatever tracking apps they wanted on the devices.