You want text translations from 1 lang to next? Cool. It works.
You want an image text-> translated text? You MUST install and have Google app installed. No real reason other than to re-enable more spyware and garbage.
Why would the Google app have more spyware than the Translate app?
That doesn't make any sense. If Google wants to spy on you they'll put it in all their apps...
Regardless of what you think of Google, the reason a feature lives in one app and not another is not to increase spying...
The same functionality spread across two apps doesn't spy more than one.
It's a different app on top of the first app? I don't understand the question.
> Regardless of what you think of Google, the reason a feature lives in one app and not another is not to increase spying...
That's why google has apps at all.... They're a spyware company. That—and depriving users of honest transactions—is much of their business model. Especially post transition to Alphabet.
> It's a different app on top of the first app? I don't understand the question.
It's irrelevant if it's a different app or a different tab in the same app as far as "spyware" would be concerned.
2 apps by the same company doesn't increase data collection compared to 1 app, if they're installed on the same phone. It's not like Google gets twice as much location data... the number of apps is entirely irrelevant.
It's only irrelevant in the technical sense of "could we collect this data if we had another app". It's not irrelevant in terms of hedging against uninstalling.
Also the Google app is required for many other apps, like to use Google Podcasts.