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If you are referring to Google Play services, there may be some confusion. This is not the Google Play Store app, rather Google Play services acts as a service

• klyrs 5y ago
  Yep, that's the one. > location functionality including geofencing (notifying apps with the appropriate permission when you've entered or left a given physical region), and activity detection (e.g. walking, driving) Right. To consolidate location tracking (and several other juicy bits) as per this story. I ran without those permissions for about a year, before I got tired of opting out of location tracking for the billionth time and installed a non-G android