No mention of MicroG? https://microg.org/
It's a very impressive project to reimplement or stub out the Google Play Services APIs so you can use third-party apps that rely on them.
It's a very impressive project to reimplement or stub out the Google Play Services APIs so you can use third-party apps that rely on them.
Furthermore, I think there's a difference between closed-source software running on your device reporting who-knows-what and open-source software that makes known, specific requests to cloud services.