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What, and Google is now the TSA? Fuck that shit. I've paid for my device, I get to do whatever the hell I want with it!
Okay, let’s check ids wherever you leave the house, since that’s the sane as checking them at the airport.
Papers please, right?
google likely has that data already, use any of thier apps, they got it, searching on google, taking pictures, emails.
google is pretty aggressively trying to datamine people for a while, Reddit is thier playgound.
You bought a phone but is leasing the software. It's not yours to do with as you please.
Have you considered using fully open source android versions?
No custom ROM on a recent smartphone technically gives you a fully open source Android system when they rely on vendor-provided proprietary blobs in order for basic hardware functionality to work at all. Unless you want to go without a modem, GPS, and likely more depending on your model, at which point it's functionally no longer a smartphone.
Open-source custom ROMs are at least far more open-source than the alternative in most of the ways that matter most, including the ability to change the code in order to remove app installation restrictions, to avoid Google's telemetry, etc.
Would the proprietary blobs in the baseband hardware stop the end user from installing software, which is the topic of concern?
If no, is this a irrelevant "achtually"-reply?
Open source Android is a thing??? TIL that might be my solution to this long term since I sideload apps regularly.
Search for your device name and "custom ROM" to see what's out there. Some are completely Google free, others retain different levels of Google play support, including downloading existing purchases.