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March 2

Android, privacy, and Play Store

In yesterday's topic, Nil Einne wrote about privacy concerns: you should either be using [...] an Android device without the Play store. Is that just a problem with the Play Store proper, so that uninstalling (if that's an option) would solve the problem or is it that – as I understand this explanation – the whole cell phone would be set up differently, so that, even if one could uninstall the Play Store, it wouldn't solve the problem, and the only solution would be to buy a different cell phone? --Compassionate traveler (talk) 20:12, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

He meant that if your Google account is suspended, you can't login to the Google Play Store. So, if you want to use your Android phone, you have to use a different service. Amazon runs one that they push (heavily) on their tablets. 97.82.165.112 (talk) 22:59, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

I can tell you from experience that the Google Play Store is superior to the Amazon Appstore. You're very, very limited in what you can get from the Amazon Appstore. ― Blaze Wolf^Talk_{Blaze Wolf#6545} 23:33, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

Thanks, guys, that answers my question. --Compassionate traveler (talk) 04:39, 3 March 2022 (UTC)