It's literally the headline of the article I've posted three times now.

Connecting purchases to your user profile has nothing to do with aggregate data and everything to do with spying on individual users for a profit.

I suppose it's also Apple's fault that Google pressured device makers to hide the Android privacy settings, and ignored users when they turned off the setting Google told them would stop Android from tracking their location?

It might be Apple's fault that you believe I said that. Try reading my comments on an Android phone, which gives you a choice of multiple working web browsers instead of just different skins of the same buggy browser engine.

> Google pressured device makers to hide the Android privacy settings.

That's funny. The privacy settings on Android are more easily accessible than the privacy settings on iOS, and they apply to all apps, not special-casing Apple apps like iOS does.

> ignored users when they turned off the setting Google told them would stop Android from tracking their location?

You're talking about two different settings in two different Google apps, not in Android. The really faulty thing is that there is no way to prevent iOS from sending your location to Apple at all unless you don't get your location on your iOS device at all.

You keep trying to compare iOS to Google and failing. The correct comparison is iOS to Android, where iOS fails badly.