Any way to keep my non-Google email contacts from Google?

[Matt Graham]

On 2018-09-03 19:25, Victor Odhner wrote:
> So on my old phone, I only synchronized my calendar items with Google.
> I avoided synching everything else, there was no need.
> That was in the not-evil days: now it seems to be sync all or nothing.
> 
> Q: IF I’M USING A DIFFERENT MAIL CLIENT FOR NON-GOOGLE EMAIL, WILL A
> SYNC WITH GOOGLE SLURP UP ALL MY CONTACTS ANYWAY?

I think this would depend on the mail client.  Which one are you using? 
There's also the approach where you back up your contacts in your mail 
client, delete them all, sync with evil google, then restore the 
backed-up contacts in your client.  This is probably too clumsy for 
regular use though.

> I’m not about to replace my OS, but just curious:
>  Are there versions of Android that don’t feed the Beast?

AOSP?  LineageOS?  These don't talk to google nearly as much.  How 
usable they would be depends a lot on whatever it is you want to do with 
your phone.  It's not immediately obvious whether a phone with LineageOS 
on it can be used to make and receive phone calls and SMS messages using 
the carrier-given phone#, for instance.

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