It's ironic, alright. One of the joys of using F-Droid is installing open-source apps without invasive ads and data tracking. But now we have reached madness in the circle where choosing a democracy option could be left merely to the users only to face bashed privacy warnings whenever a smartphone update comes around.
Talk about Big Brother not trusting Little Brother in doing whatever they want with it even if it´s respectful towards its neighbours...
But hey, on the bright side, at least now Android 13 cares about our privacy - or pretends to. 😁