Seriously, did we time travel back to 2012?

Quick, find some Bitcoin!

Yeah the title has no meaning since everyone knows they already do that. They should be more specific

"Google" - Disabled

Chrome - Disabled

Gemini - Never installed that parasite in the first place

Thanks bro

There is no way to get gemini out I tried they buried it on purpose, how to sites have broken instructions.

There's a few ungoogled privacy OSes. Graphine, Lineage, CalyxOS, Plasma, and a half dozen others. They're very model specific.

There are also mobile Ubuntu and a "Linux phone" setup.

The problem with Linux phones is that, AFAIK, calling and SMS are not supported. Which is kind of important for a phone to do the basic definition of a phone. In the privacy comms, people who have used them flatly say that a Linux phone is no where near ready to be seriously used by anyone as a real replacement for Android.

You're not wrong that a more universal phone OS needs to be out there, but since the hardware varies so oddly by manufacturer, devs can't rely plan for new drivers and test well. That's why Graphine sticks to ONLY Google Pixel hardware, to keep the driver set smaller and easier to test.

I've heard of something called GrapheneOS which the privacy community seem to like. The installation guide has my head spinning so I haven't done it, but if it's something you want to look into, there you go.

I thought one could load open source os on phones, but it does not always work with government sites, or so I heard, want to switch to os everything here.

Yes.

I was going to try to answer this, but I'd just be copy pasting the article. There's no real possible TLDR.

Which is probably by design, but still.

It's not so much about whether or not they are recording data on you. If you are using an Android device, they are collecting info about you for sure. It's about how much data you allow them to collect by using their apps. Using any of the Gapps allows them to collect some information about you. From the Play Store on down to Keep, they are collecting whatever info they can.