Not eveyrone has or needs a google or any system-wide account to use their phones.

You can change that as well. :)

Fair enough

It does.

Imagine having to explain to a casual user, SO, sibling or parent that you, while fighting to preserve your anonymity, google blocked the house. xD

I think you are confusing phones, PCs, consoles and music.

Sony phones are by no means worse than stock google phones. They offer very close to stock experience.

*Send from my pixel with Graphene

I mean their opinions are welcome but it is also lunacy to expect casual users to maintain or setup keepass+syncthing.

They fail to realize that these news are welcome and can only positively benefit open source projects.

Can be easily disabled.

Also, forks.

employees

choice

That does not sound corporate enough.

I don't even know what that is and I want to thank them for the project...

Try the mullvad browser as well, it's scoring amazingly in fingerprinting tests.

In case you were waiting, breezy weather is now on F-droid too.