they can and do however the side effect and the $$$ behind the interaction is the tracking and data collection. this is the same thing for fiat typical web APIs. they have to recover costs and make a profit so they make it invisibly from unaware users and sell their data then use it to manipulate them. any time an app uses a Google API, Google collects data.

If you're interested in the type of data per app, go here. It'll show per app which tracker and you can expand the tracker to show the data that is typically collected. [check an app] is what you want. The aurora store for Android (a proxy to install official APKs shows data from Exodus if you scroll down past the comments.

https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/

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