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I'd still put up with Android if it was still anti-walled garden. But it isn't, and hasn't been for years, which is why I finally stopping carrying the things. It's worth suffering a little pain to be open source, but unfortunately, if you have Play Services, you essentially aren't running an open source OS anymore.

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Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough.

While most people run Android the same way people run Apple, you can run Android and get your apps from f-droid, and you can run CM (and, if your into these things, Xprivacy), so while Google may still be getting your private data, random apps won't.

As someone who spent a couple years trying to use open source apps and F-Droid and such, good enough, Android is not. And Google getting your private data is far worse than random apps getting your private data. Because while random apps may get an incomplete picture, Google is profiling you on an unprecedented scale.

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