Degoogle my FP4

Y’all are free to use whatever you want, but please get your head out of the sand and stop spreading blatant misinformation.

  • microG only replaces half of Google Play Serivces, every single app that depends on it uses the proprietary Google Play Services library, microG does nothing to replace those libraries
  • microG when opt’ed-in by the user or by default by the OS (like /e/OS) connects directly to Google’s services for registration and notifications
  • microG when opt’ed-in by the user or by default by the OS (like /e/OS) for SafetyNet downloads and executes proprietary obfuscated binaries from Google, which I’ve yet to see anyone actually publish research on what it does or doesn’t collect in favor of just ignoring it
  • the majority of these “degoogled” systems don’t remove Google’s Widevine DRM at all.

Here is Google Widevine on that /e/OS FP4: proprietary-files.txt · v1-s · e / devices / android_device_fairphone_FP4 · GitLab

Here is Google EUICC provisioner on that /e/OS FP4: proprietary-files.txt · v1-s · e / devices / android_device_fairphone_FP4 · GitLab

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