In message , Andy Burns
writes
Tim Lamb wrote:

My Motoe5 play is not hugely user friendly in that it seems to expect
everything to be run through my Google account!

You can avoid it, but everything will be that bit harder without, and
whenever you ask "why doesn't X work?", people will either answer with
the assumption you are using cloud, or suggest that you should be ...
I don't mind harder if it means not sharing everything I do with an
organisation profiting from harvesting such data. No Alexa's here.

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Tim Lamb