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If this happens, I guess it's Linux Phone time for me... I'm pretty certain GrapheneOS will be able to get around this abuse of power for a while, but it wouldn't take much effort from Google to kill them too ; they almost already have...
Or maybe dumb phone time ? But I like browsing Wikipedia and playing chess and RetroArch on my phone, I don't want to lose that just because big G$ said so...
I wonder if there is a dumb phone with tethering currently. Cause if you don't mind carrying 2 devices, that may be viable for your use case
https://www.punkt.ch/products/mp02-4g-minimalist-phone