>> AFAIK the bare install will still call home: every time you connect to >> a wifi network it performs an HTTP request to a Google server in order to >> detect whether the local connection gives you access to the internet or >> not (and if not, it presumes it's a captive portal and offers you to >> launch a browser to sign in). >> > I didn't install google 'services',
Neither did I. The above description has nothing to do with "google services". Stefan