I just really wish they would just allow microG, sandboxed in the same way as Google services (like DivestOS does), behind as many security warnings as they see fit.
The DivestOS project put stronger emphasis on device longevity and on libre ("free as in speech"), so their microG implementation was just a better fit for their case.
I can explain. The first link actually contains multiple comments -- the complete discussion is linked.
For a specific example within it, it does explicitly state "17.1 and higher have an unprivileged microG feature now: https://divestos.org/pages/faq#appCompatibility" in 2023. The comment was by the DivestOS project author.
The second link, also from 2023, starts with "Latest release of my DivestOS can now run microG in an unprivileged manner:" -- also by the DivestOS author.
I think that covers it for your reading of the links, no?
Anyway, the DivestOS project did have an implementation of microG, and it was sandboxed. As for my comment about projects goals, I also selected those two links because both include such commentary about DivestOS' implementation in relation to project goals and to the GrapheneOS implementation.
Thanks for clearing that up. I should've read your post more closely. To be honest I never checked the second link because I follow the Android privacy/security scene pretty closely and I was already pretty confident that if DivestOS added support for that I'd have already heard about it. My bad!
- https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/discussion... - https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/divestos-unprivileged-mi...