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Question: If I want Android without google services, what options do I have? So far I know only cheap chinese phones and F-Droid app store.
The Fairphone 1 was shipped without Google services; don't know about the Fairphone 2.
If the phone is compromised, it doesn't matter what google has access to, the tracking kit can just enable it's own tracking and spoof the system status (depending on the level of the compromise)
If you have a concern about your phone tracking you, don't bring your phone with you.
If you care about personal privacy and security of your friends and family, you should discourage them from using Android.
Privacy from who? Security from what? What's the perceived threat we're trying to protect against?
Everything is a tradeoff. To absolutely protect your privacy, you must never be seen in public or interact with any other party in any way.
Why is this a problem? What is the harm of them collecting cell tower information? Is it possible to provide the same quality of service(s) without the cell tower information?
Certain options should be hardware disable-able and this is one of them.
While I don't disagree with you on any level, why would a hardware manufacturer ever do that? Their customer is the companies selling us phones, and most of those companies want the ability to collect data on their users to use internally or sell for profit. Shareholder profit > all, remember? /s
The employees a of company (from executive level, down) work for the Board of Directors, who are a proxy for the shareholders. The employees do not work for the customer. If there is conflict between what a customer wants and what the Board wants, the Board wins.
Certain options should be hardware disable-able and this is one of them.
While I don't disagree with you on any level, why would a hardware manufacturer ever do that? Their customer is the companies selling us phones, and most of those companies want the ability to collect data on their users to use internally or sell for profit. Shareholder profit > all, remember? /s
Certain options should be hardware disable-able and this is one of them.