Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking
I realized all this when google made my android phone practically useless [ back in the day when play store was markets ], those days google maps worked like a charm on edge connection, only showed as much info needed and there was no such thing as google play services.<p>I had used that phone, and then google started pushing play services, play store into my phone.<p>the market app would not download any app without being transformed into the play store app which would require google play services.<p>These took space on my phone, and the phone did not have space to even save sms.<p>Installing, side loading apks and all is fine but you don't and can't tell your parents in a 3rd world country.<p>It became horrible one day when I wanted to just run android market on my phone and google forced to download play store, play services, and market transformed into play store and it took more than 100 MiB data. I was trying to show my parents as to how to download something from market, etc. whatsapp was becoming popular in my town.
It was horrible because 100Mib of data costs money and screen flashed twice.<p>Then I had to give up. I had not got much money at that time.<p>Now, what I do.<p>I make an obscure email account [not gmail] on yahoo or ms or any tuta and make a google account using that email [ not gmail ] and you can keep changing the google' account email.<p>Google tracks your location, but it also correlates your location against your emails  [ it never stopped reading emails ], don't use gmail at all.<p>You cannot avoid tracking of location, but you can avoid cross check of tracking info with your gmail content.<p>The gmail which is use actually is never synced to any device [ have deleted all the my activity permissions ] and I have turned up forwarding from gmail to a certain address which I open using firefox klar once a day.<p>Summary :<p>DO NOT USE THE SAME GOOGLE ACCOUNT FOR GMAIL AND ALL OTHER GOOGLE SERVICES.