Which is also why I think Google needs to make a special category for advertisers, with a group of whitelisted advertising companies that have signed privacy po

Which is also why I think Google needs to make a special category for advertisers, with a group of whitelisted advertising companies that have signed privacy policy documents with Google. Then the (mandatory) permission becomes "Show me ads relevant to my interests and location" instead of 6 different permissions relating to internet, phone identity, etc. Right now you can't tell the difference between an app that innocently wants to show you some ads and an app that is about to upload the entire contents of your phone to a random ip address in china. I would say about 80% of the permissions requested by apps are just to show ads. If they could all be wiped away with a single permission then there would be enormously less confusion and more effort could be put on highlighting the truly dangerous permissions.