[bsammon]

(For both Android and ChromeOS) I thought it would be significantly easier to let it use a Google account, than it would be to make it proceed without one. Was I wrong? Serious question.

Links to information would be appreciated, even/especially if it's a complex task to do this.

(I never put a lot of effort into this, because having the Google account be anonymous/fake-named was generally tolerable for my privacy standards)