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You can just turn off location services on android. However, we also began with almost no privacy expectations on phones from the beginning of smartphones.

The difference here is that people using Windows in the past did have an expectation of privacy, which is no longer the case. Also, privacy is being retroactively removed.

At the end of the day, it is their product and they can do whatever they want with it. People are free to migrate away to Linux.