<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/05/google-to-add-app-store-privacy-labels-to-its-ios-apps-as-soon-as-this-week/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/05/google-to-add-app-store-pr...</a><p>Looks like Google wasn’t being entirely accurate when they spoke to the press about this a month ago.
To be fair, even Apple chooses to use different wording about it's own privacy labels. They opt for a friendlier "allow personalized ads" instead of the scary sounding "allow X to track your activity across other companies' apps and websites" like they force third-party app developers to use [1].<p>I'm not defending Google's business model and I don't disagree with Apple's move to improved privacy. I just hate how hypocritical Apple is, and they always get away with it.<p>[1] <a href="https://mobiledevmemo.com/allow-this-app-to-personalize-advertising-for-you/" rel="nofollow">https://mobiledevmemo.com/allow-this-app-to-personalize-adve...</a>
Between Terreria and this Google seems very intent on not addressing bad PR recently and just hoping that it blows over.<p>Possibly could have worked during the trump era when the news cycle was like whiplash, but now people will hopefully pay more attention.