Google is an advertising company and it's not in their interest. It's absolutely technically viable to build an app store that incentivizes using the minimum a

Google is an advertising company and it's not in their interest. It's absolutely technically viable to build an app store that incentivizes using the minimum amount of permissions possible, or to even feed fake data to overly nosy apps. In fact it's been done, but it'll be a cold day in hell before Google makes it easy. Eg: https://playsearch.kaki87.net/ https://playsearch.kaki87.net/