Step 1: Shizuku
Step 2: Canta
Step 3: aShell You
Step 4: SaverTuner
You WILL want to remove Samsung Device Care, which also controls battery usage, and just so happens to be one of Samsung's worst offenders when it comes to phoning home. SaverTuner is your foss replacement for it. After that, you can find a list of safe-to-remove apps for your particular device and start debloating. Be careful; some apps you'll need a replacement for before you remove the stock counterpart.
Google is overreaching, yet again. That's the gist of it. They want to be a monopoly. Better to get out now, than to wait until they're so engrained in our lives that they become a shadow government. Our best short-term fix is to break up the company like we did to AT&T. Our best long-term fix is to erraticate money and corporate influence from politics entirely.
If a phone can't be flashed to a different OS, then it can be degoogled with adb via pc, or Shizuku + Canta directly on the phone. There are other apps besides Canta that also work, but Canta is the easiest for non-techies to use.
Never buy an Apple product if you value sovereignty. Androids can be tweaked to cut out big brother.
Why does she raise her hands so high when she talks 😂😂
Ugh, can confirm.
If there's something strange, in your network ports. Who ya gonna call?
No better time than now to degoogle your life.
Precisely. It sounds like you should be good to go. Here's what mine looks like, for comparison:
You got ghosts, bruh
There are more options, you just have to look. GrapheneOS, LineageOS, CalyxOS, DivestOS, /e/OS... Android is not synonymous with Google. Android is open source. All the OSs I've listed are based off of Android, and are open source. Google has their own version of Android, which is closed source. But it's just another OS based off of AOSP.