DeGoogle Yourself

This is what I've done a couple of times now

https://lemmy.zip/comment/1548190

But... I haven't had any feedback on whether this is effective from the perspective of getting rid of Google entirely

I will say that it makes the phone feel really light and fast, literally every app in the app drawer is one you put there yourself. My battery life is usually better too

The UAD should be pretty safe (and I think it's a bit conservative in what it recommends) but make sure you take care with the packages you remove yourself

There is a very good series of articles here, but in German: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/android-ohne-google-take-back-control-teil1/ Parts 1, 5, 6, 7 & 8 can also be realised without custom ROM and root.

You won't be able to remove all the google spy codes at system level by just debloating, unfortunately.

For example, google has wifi scanning crap that you can't turn it off, and google has your device fingerprint, which means if you go to some website with google code in it, google will still know your device went to the website and so on.

It's not as simple as some people here says.

The first thing you need is root access. Then you can uninstall all google apps (including system apps).

Thank you all for the great suggestions!