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this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2023
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How though? I am genuinely interested.
AFAIK, and I know very little of smart phones and how they work, but isn't degooglifying and then not installing any Play Store or Google Apps the way to go? Especially if you don't have a Google account.
I too am on a similar trajectory as OP and would like to know more.
Even if you don't sign into an account, you still have google play services running on your phone (it's seperate from play store). So even though you're not directly feeding your information into it, they still infer a lot of information from how you use your phone e.g. the wifi you connect to, apps on your phone, location services etc. You can't tell who someone is based on one or two of these little bits of data, but put them all together and now they know exactly who you are
Wait what! I thought degooglifying meant no play services either. If play service is running, then yeah Google can definitely fingerprint you.
Yes you are correct in your assumption, but what OP is asking is if not signing into your Google account helps, which really doesn't