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by lvales 82 days ago
> Set up a private space which will be used for google play services required apps (bank stuff, etc).

If all the apps (including GP+GPS) are sandboxed anyway, what's the point of doing this?

2 comments

For one thing, sandboxing does not prevent apps from using IPC to talk to each other, so Google Play can communicate and thus share data with other apps regardless of the user's settings.
For me personally I want to close the space and know nothing is running, particularly gplay