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It's not the opt in/out, it's the Intention that matters. It is known that a company built on advertising will want as much data to profile and target you as possible. If you can disable all/most of the telemetry that's nice, but doesn't change the intent of the vendor, nor does it change the way you are perceived as a customer/data source.

This is the same for most vendors; with Apple, they want to make you a happy customer with the hopes that you'll buy whatever they release next, with Microsoft it's more like an ecosystem idea where they'd like you to connect as many services, software suites and devices with their software as possible, connecting home, work, private, and entertainment. It doesn't need to be the best in quality, but definitely in quantity. With Google, they want as much data about you, and as much exposure to ads as possible, with a free opt-out for data gathering, and a paid opt-out for ad serving (i.e. paid apps vs. free apps as other vendors put them in their play store).

Nothing new here, but it's not FUD about Google/Android, it's just the way they work, and there's nothing wrong with that.