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They literally include Google Widevine DRM and Google EUICC: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairphone_FP4/-/blob/v1-t/proprietary-files.t

by _rdvw 3y ago

They literally include Google Widevine DRM and Google EUICC: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairphone_FP4/-/blob/v1-t/proprietary-files.txt#L375-380 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairpho... https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairphone_FP4/-/blob/v1-t/proprietary-files.txt#L398 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/devices/android_device_fairpho... microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connections https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec... and /e/OS default enables those connections: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuiltapks_lfs/-/blob/main/GmsCore/microg.xml#L3 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuilta... including the default download and running of the proprietary Google SafetyNet binaries: https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuiltapks_lfs/-/blob/main/GmsCore/microg.xml#L7 https://gitlab.e.foundation/e/os/android_prebuilts_prebuilta... Kuketz covered the connections made in full at the very end here: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-nicht-zwangslaeufig-sicher-custom-roms-teil6/ https://www.kuketz-blog.de/e-datenschutzfreundlich-bedeutet-...

Qwertious 3y ago
microG itself connects directly to Google: https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connections https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/wiki/Google-Network-Connec... No shit, of course they do. >In general, we obviously try to minimize the connections to Google, but some services strictly rely on them and would just not work without. What exactly do you think they should do instead?
- _rdvw 3y ago
  Be opt-in like the other systems, not opt-out.