Do you need a Google account to use an Android phone? Here's what you'll lose—and gain—if you choose not to sign in.

Do you need a Google account to use an Android phone? Here’s what you’ll lose—and gain—if you choose not to sign in.

  • smileyhead@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    2·
    11 months ago

    WiFi scanning is not nessesary for location to work and as a proof we can use any other app other than Google Maps on deGoogled phone just fine.

    This option is officially used to build convinient location history on Google Maps and Google Photos and for building WiFi map for Google’s database. Both with creepy consequence - leaking 24/7 location of every Android phone by default.

    • bartolomeo@suppo.fiEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I just tested- Google Maps doesn’t work unless you turn on wifi scanning. Creeps.