[commoner]

There is a way around this. If you use an Android distribution with UnifiedNlp (part of microG) and without Google Play Services, you can install only the location providers that you want to use for Wi-Fi and cell tower triangulation. Google would not be monitoring your location queries. Provider options include:

- OpenCellID (offline): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.gfd.gsmlocation/

- Radiocells.org (optionally offline): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.openbmap.unifiedNlp/

- Déjà Vu (offline cache using Wi-Fi and cellular data): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.fitchfamily.android.deja...

- Mozilla Location Services (online): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.microg.nlp.backend.ichna...

UnifiedNlp is preinstalled on Android distributions that include microG. CalyxOS is the only one of these that supports relocking the bootloader with the developers' key:

https://calyxos.org