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MicroG implements the same contact tracing functionality. If you install MicroG, you can avoid all the tracking Google Play Services does usually.
by kuschku 5y ago
MicroG implements the same contact tracing functionality. If you install MicroG, you can avoid all the tracking Google Play Services does usually.
- mandmandam 5y agoInteresting, I hadn't heard of that. Still, the point I was making is that Google absolutely lied about what their app was sending; and people who distrust them are more than justified to. The privacy virtues of the Irish app in particular were the subject of much lauding - when it was shortly after :proven: to be bullshit, that story got less than 1% of the traction.
- kuschku 5y agoThe contact tracing apps send basically nothing. It's the rest of Android that's the issue. The point is that installing the contact tracing apps doesn't track you any more than before, neither on microg+fdroid than on a google stack.
- sp332 5y agoIf someone has stock Android with Google Play Services disabled, the app won't work. The instructions to install the app don't mention installing a replacement, they tell users to enable Google Play Services.