this needs to be stopped.

Hopefully these trends will encourage some sort of fork of Android/some other mobile OS to emerge so that we (at least in North America) have to choose between Apple or Google, like choosing between a rock and a hard place.

The sad reality of it all is that AI is becoming more and more intelligent, as we speak and it has gotten to the point in which it's just too computationally expensive for website owners and server owners from all over the world, to distinguish between what's a real, legitimate human visitor of their server, trying to make a request or send a POST action to confirm some stateful command, and what's an automated bot that's trying to pose as a human and deceive the server on the other end.

We are at a point in which there needs to be some kind of attestation framework in place to make this distinction in a proper manner and sadly, the only way to do this that's also very difficult to hack around is to use one's entire Google account that has a rich and diverse history of search queries, android app installations, youtube history and so on, to create a profile that's difficult to fake by AI. Many other, way less intensive techniques have been tried in the past, and they have all been defeated. AI has become too good at pretending to be a human.

The last bastion of verifying whether a given user is a human or not has to be very invasive because their Google account information is the only real way of proving that you're not a bot