More like, “Why did you lock your doors, are you diddling kids?”

Google does NOT need your phone number on GrapheneOS. I’m on Graphene and Google doesn’t have shit.

To add to what others are saying, there’s been hard evidence of apps doing this, notably Meta apps.

I’m aware, but if you have the free space, why waste the bandwidth?

But then you need to stream it every time, which is more frequently.