It's driving me crazy that I can't find this video. There was a defcon talk where they put a phone on airplane mode and stuck it in a faraday cage. They set up a box to see what it would transmit after they drove around for a while and connected to wifi and it transmitted location data based on the acceleratometer.
You can wave your arms and shout "conspiracy! conspiracy!" like a mad man if you want, but that won't change facts and what's really going on.
You're acting smug and condescending because you think you're right, but the reality is that you are the one that doesn't know what you're talking about.
Maybe someday Netflix will release a documentary that wraps up all the facts and puts a bow on it for you and you'll be able to understand it.
They stopped protecting them, and it looks like it might have been because they were eyeing this partnership. Microsoft threatened to remove services for Gab because they didn't like what some of the users were saying. I don't necessarily agree with any of those people's opinions on things, but it's a canary in the coal mine. Microsoft and Google are anti-free speech, and if Cloudflare starts relying on them, they can threaten to remove services if Cloudflare doesn't kiss the ring and do what they're told (i.e. censor thought crimes).
If you're privacy conscious, why do you have a smart phone at all? Get a standalone GPS
Even in airplane mode, your phone is tracking where you go with the accelerometer. I don't have time to look up the video right now, but this has been tested.