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I do not know how easy this is to do with stock Android but on Cyanogen it is easy to not install any Google stuff, instead choosing F-Droid for a software repository and if you really need an APK or two from the amazon and google stores use http://android-apk-downloader.com
if you ask nicely the author will give you a G-Play login.
I quit using Ubuntu Touch mostly because it tried to force a Launchpad Ubuntu-Store model onto users vs the desktop open repos we are used to. An upside to cyanogen, if your device is supported, is it lets you re-block permissions on apps after installing them, you also now need what amounts to a cheat code to prove that you actually have business futzing in root, probably to satisfy one+ without removing it entirely.
Regular Android allows too much as user because with exceptions / is inaccessible.
 

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