How Deeply is Google Rooted in Android (also iOS)

[Brad]

Gael Duval, the founder of the /e/ foundation, has kept a list of ways Google has rooted itself in Android for data collection about users.  This is what they found when deGoogleing Android.

https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/google-abuse-of-dominant-position-some-facts-about-the-google-android-operating-system-and-personal-data-collection/

[ergophobe]

There are some items on that list that are different from Apple (Google DNS) and some that are identical (Play Store vs App Store).

I am just less and less a fan of Apple products from a user point of view. I've had an iPhone for 7 years now and just think that for me the Android phones are better. I'm trying to decide how much I care about this, especially since I'm so deep in the Googleverse anyway.