Firebase is loosely speaking an app development framework which hosts the server side of your app on Google Cloud. The firebase web site lists some apps built w

Firebase is loosely speaking an app development framework which hosts the server side of your app on Google Cloud. The firebase web site lists some apps built with it like NYT and trivago and Duolingo, but I don't think you could reasonably avoid them based on how they look, those look like every other app. It's really not clear what this lawsuit is about from this article, either. Is the problem the Google Cloud integration? Is the problem Google Analytics being shipped with apps? All that we can really tell from the information given is that there is some conflict between non-Google apps and the Google privacy settings, which just sounds like a strange tension. Like, of course non-Google apps are not subject to Google's privacy policy. Still, this lawsuit may have some indirect effect where Google someday needs to rebrand, and the apps that it sends straight to you like Docs and Gmail continue to be “Google” while the platforms for other developers like Google Cloud carry some other name as part of a different subsidiary of Alphabet, Inc. I don't want to speculate too much about that, it seems strange but that's why we have court systems to work through the stranger points of law.