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Thats's nonsense. You can install any app you want and google has no way of deleting it from your phone.

You can root your phone or install completely different OSes.

It may not be ideal but it will definitely aid you in circumventing the government.




> google has no way of deleting it from your phone

Is there any reason to believe that Google's "remote application removal feature" is limited to working on Market apps and not any arbitrary bundle ID? https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2010/06/exercising...


At worst, you can install an application firewall on any Android phone to block all connections to Google.




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