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@howto get rid of #google on your #android phone with @freeopensource software.

This is the site where you get the #playstore replacement by @fdroidorg for your phone:
f-droid.org

There is an emulator for the google #APP store that let's you download APP's without register to google at all on #f-droid.
f-droid.org/en/packages/com.au…

There are also sites where you get APP's that are on google play, for example:
apkpure.com/

You can reset any android phone, start from scratch, confirm the inicial TOS but not register with google services and the playstore. That's the moment when you get a little bit sealioned with the intention to trick you into confirm registering with google and perhaps the phone vendor and maybe the producer.
In the android aplication settings in applications you can stop and uninstall all standard google programs, including things like #chrome. The only one I use is #googleMaps, but I don't allow access to the #GPS, for any APP, including weather forecast. And I have GPS nearly always turned off.
They might sealion you into registering with google to update things like chrome so stopping those APP's is useful.

You wont have a #gmail account or anything but you normally have some kind of browser, or the #USB connection for the #phone. From there you start by installing the f-droid APP, you have to allow third party APP's and can install the rest from there. You probably would want to install #KDEconnect, #Newpipe or #Pipepipe as YT replacement, #mastodon or #fedilab APP for the #fediVerse, of course there are more options, #lightning as web browser, #antennaPod for podcasts and some email client.
Updates for f-droid installed APP's come in automatically and you have to allow each and every one. Of course the android updates themself work as always.

f-droid.orgF-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App RepositoryF-Droid instalatu daitekeen Android plataformarako aplikazio libreen edo FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) aplikazioen katalogo bat da. Bezero honek zure gailuan aplikazio hauek erraz bilatu, instalatu eta eguneratzea ahalbidetzen dizu.
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