This is a beautiful quote because it is an example of one industry's bad behavior leading to another industry's bad behavior, upon which the first industry then users the second's similarity to justify themselves. Cars only started doing this because phones made it normal. It's wrong in both cases.
It's similar to when Apple defended it's 30% store cut by claiming it's an "industry standard"... specifically, an industry standard that Apple established.
They send only a list of functions on the stack without any of the arguments or data.
Example: https://retrace.fedoraproject.org/faf/problems/bthash/?bth=3...
Where Google goes too far is sending everything in the name of security or better yet to "serve" the user.