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by akimbostrawman
28 days ago
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There is no privacy advantage by using MicroG compared to Google play services. You still connect to there service all the same giving privileged access to your device. There is a security AND privacy advantage by using sandboxed google play because they limit the kind of system access it has compared to MicroG/play services. Again the only advantage of MicroG compared to play services is that it's open source, you still have all the same privacy and security issues. Its already a lot of work to support the official play services and make them work in a sandbox, supporting another layer in between is more headache than its worth it or they have time/money for. Not to mention that sandboxed play services work with much more feature than MicroG such as android auto. |
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...assuming you are connected all the time, or at least that the services are running all the time. In my case they are not. I only enable them every once in a while, when I need to be alerted of something. This might not be how most people use their phones, but I do it because there is no way to preserve any privacy at all if you are running Google services 24/7 (sandboxed or not).
I see Google services as malicious software - not security malicious (Google can't risk that) but privacy malicious. This is why I care more about ability to turn them on / off than about what kind of access they have. Even inside the sandbox, as regular apps, they have way too much info about me.
As I said: I would prefer sandoxed MicroG, but given the available options non-sandboxed MicroG is preferable to sandboxed always-on Google services.