Dear @Kubiac, sorry for a delayed reply. Googleapis connection is totally not needed for proper phone functioning. DivestOS for example hasn’t done it as can bee seen in Kuketz’s articles. I’d rather not use apps which would require Google’s API key.
@lucasmz well, some basic info is transmitted by giving out the IP alone - for example if the phone would connect to Google using my home router without VPN, Google could hypothetically link this piece of data with other data about activity from the same IP address the phone connected from, profiling association between a phone and the IP, or just confirming that a phone is being used - potentially then trying to profile phone activity even if connecting from other IPs afterwards. With the mass surveillance Google and other companies are implementing, an IP can be linked to a household, etc - there are many methods to do this. Big Data is specifically being developed to link data point connections which are almost unlinkable, unrecognizable by a human, milking data out of it useful for surveillance and advertising. AI can profile each of us individually as if everyone has a personal Gestapo agent assigned specifically to them. For these reasons I am for giving Google exactly 0 data points to work with.