Sure, by running a fork of stock Android you can certainly reduce your exposure to Google but you also &quot;severely&quot; limit your experience -&gt; no maps, no play store (= relying on limited third party stores) and so on, and these are just core applications (not including Chrome, Keep, Youtube, the other &quot;Store&quot; applications and all the rest here). Also there is no guarantee you cut all ties with Google. I am not sure I would dare to claim plain Android does not communicate with Google at all.<p>The desire to avoid Google and still using Android (whatever incarnation of it) does not go too well hand in hand I am afraid.