Software that came preloaded with what sounds suspiciously like a rootkit to keep the background service running on some phones.

Please don't "don't that phone then" because it's the same all the way down to rotary telephones.

I still didn't consent to meta tracking me on my telephone. I understand the shadow profiles and tracking pixels and whatnot, but cmon.

Next year "actually meta was listening to conversations captured by android devices and using it to target ads"

Don't use a cellphone? Meta and Google track desktop web use. Don't use a computer? Okay, that's cool.