Yes please! I understand you can disable the notifications in Maps settings, but that likely doesn't disable the constant location tracking.
Does anyone know how to disable this?
Does anyone know how to disable this?
As far as I know google can't link me to any data that maps sends.
Spotify works fine, along with a half dozen other apps.
Signal can a bit of a pain, as it complains about not having a google api backend, which I think is for contacts. Again, the pain is worth it. And there are open source contact alternatives.
I can't get apps that I paid for, for that I would have to sign in with Yalp, which I haven't bothered with. The freedom is so much better.
Everything else works, banking apps, Firefox, Dropbox, etc.
I'm using a Sony Xperia Z2. The battery is AMAZING! I really wish a largish company would pick this idea up, and start selling phones without google. Sony? The freedom and privacy is worth a lot in my opinion.
So yes, you can remove Google completely from your smartphone, but then many things are getting much more complicated. So I don't want to remove Google completely from my phone. I just want to have easy options to turn things off I do not like.
I just wish Google would respect their users wishes a little more and would keep developing their services in a direction which would embrace community contributions to the eco system.
This is not how things work in reality. People/corporations don't do what you want just because you're wishing it. If you are unwilling to tolerate a little bit of discomfort why should they tolerate the risk of changing their practices which have been proven to work? By continuing to buy Android devices, despite your complaints, you are, in fact, providing them with the opposite incentive.