Wow, good points, thank you. The connectivity checks look like a PIA but in this case (not being a person of interest) it seems reasonable to just keep the phone on LOS.

Hey thanks for the info. Are you saying that just standard LineageOS without gapps or MicroG will be unable to have a functioning OsmAnd (for example)? I remember a few years ago you had to install Mozilla location services seperately from F-Droid to get OsmAnd to work without Google stuff, but I’ve personally been out of the loop for a while.

Thanks for the info ❤️

Looks like you’re right about that, thanks.

Thanks, and is there one DNS provider that is better than the others in terms of privacy and degoogling?