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No mention of MicroG? https://microg.org/ https://microg.org/ It's a very impressive project to reimplement or stub out the Google Play Services APIs so you c
by ForHackernews 8y ago
No mention of MicroG? https://microg.org/ https://microg.org/
It's a very impressive project to reimplement or stub out the Google Play Services APIs so you can use third-party apps that rely on them.
- mbaeten 8y agoTo be aware, this still uses google servers. I'm not quite sure what the benefit is then (beside it being open source).
- ForHackernews 8y agoIt doesn't have to use Google services, it's FLOSS and configurable. For example, you can replace the location backend with one that uses Mozilla's location service: https://github.com/microg/IchnaeaNlpBackend https://github.com/microg/IchnaeaNlpBackend Furthermore, I think there's a difference between closed-source software running on your device reporting who-knows-what and open-source software that makes known, specific requests to cloud services.
- seba_dos1 8y agoThey even maintain a premade fork of LineageOS with microG preinstalled, which I recommend if you ever need to use Android: https://lineage.microg.org/ https://lineage.microg.org/