[MayflowerMadam]

Don’t you need a Google account to use an Android device? We were told that was necessary.

[Openurmind]

“Don’t you need a Google account to use an Android device? We were told that was necessary.”

You can keep “skipping” to do later when you set up the phone when you get it new. And then just never do it. But this does not keep them from still spying on you. It is not your phone, it will forever belong to Google. It is in the use agreement to even activate and use that device at all.

It is extortion...

[algore]

You do not need a Google account.

Only if you want app store.