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From: Andrew <andys@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: What can't you do on Android WITHOUT a Google Account set up in the OS?
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 05:04:25 -0000 (UTC)
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R.Wieser wrote on Wed, 1 Jan 2025 20:36:19 +0100 :

> Think of occams razor: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately 
> explained by stupidity."

Rudy is correct that nobody but Theo understood the question asked here.

The fact remains that if anyone has a Google Account set up on Android,
then they have already forfeited their right to privacy as it's impossible
to maintain privacy when a Google Account is integral to Android Settings.

The only people who stand a chance of privacy, are those who don't do that.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/x1NZwj5G/account02.jpg>

Theo is the only one, so far, who understood the question, where, Fitbit on
Android requires a Google Account (because Google acquired Fitbit in 2021).

To test out Theo's FitBit observation, without a Google Account set up on
my Android phone, moments ago I anonymously downloaded the latest FitBit
app from the Google Play Store repository <com.fitbit.FitbitMobile>.

It asked me to "Sign in with Google" or "Sign in with Fitbit".

Clicking "Sign in with Fitbit" doesn't seem to allow me to *create* a
FitBit account, and "Sign in with Google" says, very clearly this:
 <https://i.postimg.cc/7ZRtbdHN/fitbit01.jpg>

 *The account will be added to this device*

So that makes THREE Google apps which are known to infest Android with an
unwanted integral account just by the mere act of logging into them.

1. The Google Gmail app (easily replaced with an open-source MUA)
2. The Google Voice app (less easily replaced with an open-source VOIP)
3. The Google FitBit app (is it easily replaced with an alternative app?)

To find out what that alternative app might be, I opened this thread today:
 *For privacy, what is a suitable alternative to the Google FitBit app on Android?*
 <https://www.novabbs.com/computers/article-flat.php?id=56645&group=comp.mobile.android#56645>