>Is it just a decision of whether I want to give my data to the American government or the Chinese government? iOS dev here. Facebook does the same with their

>Is it just a decision of whether I want to give my data to the American government or the Chinese government? iOS dev here. Facebook does the same with their SDK which is included in basically every iOS app. Google does the same with the Firebase SDK which is also included in every app. There are also tons of other SaaS companies offering their own plug-and-play analytics SDKs, of which marketing managers are eager to shove down the engineers throats as many as possible. It’s not uncommon for a single app to host 6-7 different analytics SDKs from various vendors. And this is on iOS, the supposedly “privacy conscious” platform. On Android it’s total Wild West...