Yes. If you install Graphene and no play services your phone is de-googled unless you use Google services through a web browser or install another app that contacts them. Google does not have magical hardware level telemetry.
Yep! Since the Nexus phones, big G has kept dev’s in mind when designing their devices. This is why there’s so much control available on Pixies and previously on old Nexus phones.
Yes. If you install Graphene and no play services your phone is de-googled unless you use Google services through a web browser or install another app that contacts them. Google does not have magical hardware level telemetry.
How can we* know this for sure? It seems so uncharacteristic of the company.
*or I, a pleb.
They don’t care. It doesn’t impact them economically in any noticeable way because the user base of these ROMs is too small for it to matter.
Also, you can see all traffic on your local network using Wireshark. Reiterating that computers aren’t magic.
Yep! Since the Nexus phones, big G has kept dev’s in mind when designing their devices. This is why there’s so much control available on Pixies and previously on old Nexus phones.