I would classify that as "not sufficiently anonymized." I'm asking a serious question and don't really subscribe to dogma as being particularly convincing.

Thanks for the facetious argument and hand-waving though.

This is literally why the data is being collected. Granted, i do not work at Google, but i have experience in exactly this area.

Apps and websites want to sell you things. Well many of them. They then need to know for how much. If they know, they can extract more profit. Which is why they try to find out. Really. No dogma.

What do you think I do with your fingerprint as you engage with my sales website?

"Improve my service?" I hope you never buy a used car.

I'm trying to suggest that there is a middle ground between outright banning all tracking, and the current state of affairs. Not that the situation I described is where we are today.