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Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by raspasov on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:30PM (#16179857)
All those things can be done locally on the phone only and without any server-side data processing. Without investigating into Google/Android terms of use I can bet they are NOT done locally (I might be wrong, this is a guess).

Ultimately it’s the consumer’s choice whether you want to buy your personal mobile device from a company that makes+sells phones for a living or from a company the sells ads for a living (no bad feeling against ads) and also makes+sells phones on the side to augment those ads.

Re:Google, You Creepy Sonofabitch by em3rgent0rdr on Thursday January 18, 2018 @01:56PM (#16180130)
You can install 3rd party libre roms like Lineage OS which don't have any proprietary Google spyware on Androids.