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I'm very anti-advertising as well. I use ublock and youtube vanced, and have a pihole on my home network. While privacy is certainly a bonus, the main reason

I'm very anti-advertising as well. I use ublock and youtube vanced, and have a pihole on my home network. While privacy is certainly a bonus, the main reason is that ads interrupt what I want to look at, consume power, are ugly, intrusive and a vector for malware. I know many content creators consider me to be stealing their content, I wouldn't exactly disagree. But so be it. Some sites block me from visiting them, I think that's completely fair, and I don't put up much effort in circumventing such blocks. This Privacy Sandbox initiative appears to not at all address the problems I have with advertisements.

jcranberry 5y ago
I think it could help with being vectors for malware. The proposal wants advertising sdks to be uploaded to the play store as separate apks, and run in a separate process with limited permissions with no remote code execution allowed. Perhaps that might help you install apps without the SDKs as well. But the sandbox does appear to be computationally costly since the spec says it may not be enabled on starter android 13 phones. Also I doubt it will help regarding aesthetics. Of course the documents have all this as optional features rather than compulsory ones. But it sounds nice.