Tut tut, achually… Android doesn’t have it built in, it’s bundled with the Google package. Witch is included in virtually all android phones so I know what you mean.
I use /e/os, so to me the Google package is a third party system and I use open source applications to access parts of the Google infrastructure without having to have a Google account.
The downside is that not all Google features are available. Like find my phone functions when there’s no associated account. But I can text my phone with a secret codeword and it’ll send back it’s GPS coordinates so that’s something I suppose.
Tut tut, achually… Android doesn’t have it built in, it’s bundled with the Google package. Witch is included in virtually all android phones so I know what you mean.
I use /e/os, so to me the Google package is a third party system and I use open source applications to access parts of the Google infrastructure without having to have a Google account.
The downside is that not all Google features are available. Like find my phone functions when there’s no associated account. But I can text my phone with a secret codeword and it’ll send back it’s GPS coordinates so that’s something I suppose.