no, not at all. I know most people are not capable of setting this up. but this is not the point: the parent claimed that you pay for these cheap phones with y

no, not at all. I know most people are not capable of setting this up. but this is not the point: the parent claimed that you pay for these cheap phones with your private data, which is not true. if you care about that (which > 99.8% of the population don't do) you are able to use those phones with those features without handing over your data to google.