alt Hacker NewsOf course the ID was easy to abuse, and I assume Google knew this, and also knew they'd need to have rules against abuse... and that they'd need to back up the rules with penalties, like Play Store permaban, legal action for damages, and maybe even referral for criminal investigation (CFAA violation?).
Unfortunately, even if they did have such rules, in this case, Meta is a too-big-to-deplatform tech company.
(Also, even if it wasn't Meta, sketchy behavior of tech might have the secret endorsement of IC and/or LE. So, making the sketchiness stop could be difficult, and also difficult to talk about.)
Google and Apple are owning their whole operating systems. They can do tracking directly in 50 different ways. Other corporations routinely renegotiate deals on sharing the user surveillance data with them, for big big money. So it all has already been paid for, and authorised. The only problem is that some stupid serfs are still making a fuss over it.