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ok I will try to make this shorter because no one wants to read those huge texts.
getting rid of google and android has been the hardest thing I have had to deal with in this whole process, I still use a lot of closed source applications on my phone and getting rid of google completely has been impossible.
since i switched to linux i have wanted to install a rom also to my phone but there is none available for my tecno spark 6 so i have had no choice but to leave all the crap that comes pre installed from google and more, searching on the internet i found that some bloatware can be uninstalled using adb and i have done that to remove some of it but i have read that it is not recommended to remove google play services this way and that it is safer to keep it updated because sometimes google usually releases security updates on it, so i had to look for an alternative and this is to use a vpn based firewall, I have tried almost all the ones in f-droid but I had a big problem to solve, I could not enable a vpn and the firewall at the same time, plus I also needed to block tracking and ads of the applications I used, but at the end I found the application that brought everything I needed in one and so far it has worked great, InviZible Pro, an application that allows you to connect to a DNS and set rules to block all connections ads and tracking, also includes a firewall to restrict internet access to all that Bloatware junk that brings my phone and also allows you to connect to Tor and thus be anonymous and deal with censorship. After trying lots of applications this was the one that convinced me the most and I've been using it for a few months now.
my intention is to buy a new phone and get rid of these roms full of bloatware but for now I have no choice but to continue in this way.