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I don't know from a security and data-privacy manner, but keep in mind it's slower and laggier than the other alternative, especially when checking for updates (It will take a long time), and downloading the updates is a painful process.
My experience with Android 8 and 9 is the same.
The Playstore app is in near constant communication with the Google servers (for "checking updates"), so Google can track you quite well via this.
Not to mention in my experience Play Services can be a battery drain. I experienced it in stock Pie and it just happens randomly.
I intend to turn it off again(see my reply above) so that should not be an issue.
Problem is there is a few apps I need and can only get there(to buy certain train tickets) and I cant simply just do it on the train companys website. All the time I have had this android phone I have had Google Play store disabled and im running a vpn firewall so no calls from any app is going through. Would I be able to just get a few apps and then disable and firewall anything *.google.com again ?
Aurora out of the picture? Did I miss something?
Aurora is still working. Google was doing things like rate-limiting and shutting down the accounts used by Aurora for anonymised downloads. You can create your own google account and use that with Aurora. That way, if Google decides to shut down that throw-away account for some reason, the main Google account won't be affected (there was some information floating around that google had been deactivating accounts found to be used with Aurora).
Aurora still works for now
All the time I have had this android phone I have had Google Play store disabled and im running a vpn firewall so no calls from any app is going through. Would I be able to just get a few apps and then disable and firewall anything *.google.com again ?
Yeah, you could do that. Any data collected during that time would be for sure sent to google. I do not know if play services archives data to be sent or not. If it does then google may get quite a bit of previous data. Personally i run LineageOS with no gapps package even installed. If i cant access the play store i just lose access to 3 apps and will work around them. The biggest one of those is my bank so i may be forced to either do banking from my laptop (they gimp the mobile site and want you to get the app) or at worst i will switch banks