Google kept heating up the water until they accidentally boiled the frog. And the frog is us.
What is not up for debate is that Google is ripping away our privacy every day, taking the most intimate pieces of our lives and selling them in buckets of parts – like pieces of cow flesh in a Whole Foods display case.
Google wants to be proud of their legacy, and tricking people into clicking ads and selling our profiles to advertisers is an awesome business – but a horrible legacy for Larry and Sergey.
It's your device, so you can do whatever you want with it. When you download something onto your device, it is now yours to remix and play with in any way you want – provided you don't republish it and make money from it. (Fair use is the exception here.) According to this basic tenet, if I buy the New York Times in print, clip out all the ads and then tape it back together at home, well, that's my right.