I believe this stems from Google being fined ~$60-mil in early 2022 for breaching GDPR privacy requirements by not having privacy policies for their apps that were collecting data. So, they put them on everything.
As of July 2022, they started requiring ALL apps on the Play Store to have privacy policies so don't be surprised if you start seeing more and more on random 3rd party apps as well. Apple has the same stipulation for the Apple Store.
Generally, if you need to hide something, a good place is somewhere boring where no one would look.
I believe this stems from Google being fined ~$60-mil in early 2022 for breaching GDPR privacy requirements by not having privacy policies for their apps that were collecting data. So, they put them on everything.
As of July 2022, they started requiring ALL apps on the Play Store to have privacy policies so don't be surprised if you start seeing more and more on random 3rd party apps as well. Apple has the same stipulation for the Apple Store.
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