de0u When I use public transit, I pay using an NFC card (not with my phone).
mmobder Payment is just a part of the puzzle (don't you know it?) - it all starts with planning your route.
My local public transit agency has a web app -- admittedly not very good, but I don't need it often -- and also PDFs of paper schedules. If a bus will be along some time within the next 10 minutes then I don't really need to know whether it will be 3 minutes or 5 minutes. Some of the bus stops have e-ink displays that indicate that anyway. For my needs, public transit genuinely doesn't require any apps, let alone signing in to an age-verified Google account.
mmobder So again, if you do use modern services, like government apps, citizen apps, logistics apps, primary video/music streaming apps, your chances to live without google services (directly or indirectly, but still fingerprintable) are close to none.
I think the original post in this thread was about (some) Google accounts requiring age verification. I don't think it was about whether or not Uber internally uses Google map data and whether or not Google can fingerprint me that way. If I book a ride on Uber, Uber is getting a phone number and a credit card number along with pickup and dropoff addresses, so I am consenting to Uber learning that information. The reminder that fingerprinting by Google is possible is welcome, but honestly I don't do it very often.
It's one thing to lament if the apps and services one chooses to use throughout the day interact with one or another giant data-nexus company. But at present the alternative is to use those apps and services less, and some people commenting here do use those apps and services less ... perhaps by doing things differently in ways you find inefficient, or perhaps by not doing some of those things at all.
Using Google/Apple-related services less may not be what you choose, but calling people who do that "minimalist", "disrespectful of intellectual property", "masochist", "not existing in modern world", "lying to yourself", etc., seems unwarranted.