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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by utbabya on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:07PM (#14999968)
Even if you don't install any GApps, Android would still ping Google servers. I can't remember exactly since it was a while ago, but IIRC it was some hardcoded NTP server.

Not much but still a heartbeat per GeoIP.

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Re:Big brother is here, and his name is Facebook by greedy_buffer on Saturday August 12, 2017 @10:57PM (#15001248)
Not to mention the captive portal redirect URL
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