[kevin_thibedeau]

It's a shame that LineageOS doesn't let you spoof apps with bogus data anymore. It's much easier to let them think they're getting permissions than try to play whack-a-mole with opt out settings that could get reset at any time by bad actors.

[a-dub]

my understanding was that the first instance of that was way back in cyanogenmod back in the late 00s and that it was quashed when google basically said "we'll let you bootleg the play store, but only if you don't screw up revenue streams by feeding app developers garbage data"

[GekkePrutser]

They have come even closer to Google now, I'm sure they'd love to be an official distribution with play apps included out of the box if they could. Fair enough though, most of their userbase sideload Google services.

I use it with microg myself but I have to use a special fork. I wish microg had this option too, it would be great to be able to feed garbage.