Jeeze, any platform that gets $$$ from advertising will track you as much as possible, whether it is FB (like button everywhere anyone?), MS, Apple etc.

ALL are evil and hell, even Nokia gave the middle finger to Maemo community on that SMS issue. You think ethics is a concern to any corporation ?

Google is singled out not because it is more evil - but because they are a very competent evil.

But hey I would do the same thing - they give out alot of free **** and it all needs to be paid for and they have to make profit.

Hell if you really dont like Android, you have the source i guess so go cook your own rom.