This wasn't sponsored content. Not sure why you assume that. A link to AdLock was accidentally not included. It's in there now

Things like the complete lack of a mention of uBlock Origin, despite it having a rather drama filled few weeks. Or that a similar article was posted elsewhere claiming that though uninstalls were way up, it was mostly people moving to ad blockers that work. Your article feels like pandering for what I view as rather scummy companies.

looks like a direct response to EU agreement https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_23_... "Furthermore, Google will facilitate also information on the company (e.g. legal name and address) and direct and effective contact points (e.g. a live telephone agent);"

"Neeva drew on its $80 million in funding to develop its own system to serve results, though it still relies on Bing for image and video searches. "

https://www.wired.com/story/chatgpt-opened-a-new-era-in-sear...

Parts of Firebase do share data with Google that Google can access and use. https://firebase.google.com/policies/analytics

I'm not seeing anything that obviously supports your statement in that link, but I may be missing something. Could you quote the relevant section?

I'm outside the edit window, but this page [1] looks more relevant. App owners can opt in to sharing additional data with Google for use in things such as spam prevention. It is off by default.

[1] https://support.google.com/firebase/answer/6383877?hl=en