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by jqpabc123 874 days ago
...will need to be rewritten to avoid Google Play Services.

Not true.

All that's needed is for open source developers to "re-implement Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries".

In most cases, the apps themselves won't know or care if they are feeding data to Google or not. For those few that do care, you can usually find a suitable replacement that doesn't --- or just use the publisher's good old-fashioned web site (aka banks) with a privacy focused browser like Brave.

https://microg.org/