Google maps also tries to get your location when the phone starts! You can avoid all of this by running LineageOs and not installing Gapps. Or install them, and use XPrivacyLua to lie every time play services asks.
I can't do this for my daily driver (stupid work apps don't allow root without much fiddling), so I compulsively turn off location permission.
Google won't add a feature to spoof location or even block play services because of obvious reasons. The best course of action if you don't want to be tracked constantly is LineageOs or iPhone
F-Droid is an open source app app store and it works really well. For other apps you can sideload, the most secure way is by grabbing the APK from a device that has play store.
Increasingly more apps won't work because Google tries to link everything to their services. So that stock Android without Google's bs is useless. Thankfully we have these things called websites I can use whenever the app doesn't work.
I can't do this for my daily driver (stupid work apps don't allow root without much fiddling), so I compulsively turn off location permission.
Google won't add a feature to spoof location or even block play services because of obvious reasons. The best course of action if you don't want to be tracked constantly is LineageOs or iPhone