Hmm; would I rather Google have access to my data, or the Chinese Government?
Soon you can have both!
Also, the American government/5E.
I know for sure that world politics is truly a very grim state of affairs when I view the American government as less of a threat than Google or China.
I'm on a redmi purchased in China and I eventually switched to lineage because the people's app store didn't always have what I need.
i wiped the preinstalled OS as soon as i got a chance. the constant nagging to connect to their cloud services was disturbing. and i wouldn't trust any chinese market. the level of spyware/adware in those is sickening.
"people's app store didn't always have what I need."
This gave me a chuckle.
I was horrified on installing netguard that Xiaomi phones ping their own servers (on AWS) as often as Google does theirs. It's depressing what the 'smarphone' age has come to be.