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There is no way or permission on (standard) Android to grant a trusted app access to your location, without granting it to Google first.
by rhamzeh 6y ago
There is no way or permission on (standard) Android to grant a trusted app access to your location, without granting it to Google first.
- passerby1 6y agoLineageOS as an alternative os?
- Mediterraneo10 6y agoLineageOS ships with Google’s location services. Plus, Google has changed the way that third-party location services have to be installed in Android. Now, they have to be installed as a system app, not as a normal app. This requires knowledge of how to use the command line over ADB, and you also have to install some special files that allow your custom-installed location services to survive system upgrades. So, I have Mozilla location services running on my LineageOS phone instead of Google’s, but only because I'm that tiny minority of nerds who knows how to do all that. Ordinary people might prefer to simply install MicroG’s fork of LineageOS, which avoids Google outright and provides third-party location services.
- JCharante 6y agoI wonder how it works on Huawei phones that shipped with Android after they weren't allowed to ship with Google services. I think P40 was the last phone to ship with Google services?
- acct776 6y agoLineage breaks the Android security model. I'd use GrapheneOS where possible. Consider making it possible where it's not.
- MikeUt 6y agoReally? That sounds downright abusive. What next, not allowing disk read/write permission, without also giving it to Google?
- refulgentis 6y agoThere's a very interesting thing going on with this: what they mean is, Android location requests go through the location API provider on the phone, and Android phones the US is familiar with are content to roll with Google's location API
- MikeUt 6y agoDoes that mean Google also gets that location data?