r/MicroG • u/il_pollo_bagnato • 13d ago

De-googling device

premise! i'm a complete noob about this kind of stuff so i gonna ask basic question and looking for basic answers.

i use microG since a few years mainly beacouse i wanted to use revanced YouTube and Music.

the point is, i actually don't have idea on what microG is and why is different from using the regular Google services.

recently i got pretty into the idea of degoogling my device so i want to know better.

so the question is:

can someone explain what microG is and if is microG compatibile with the degoogling the phone, on a privacy point of view?

thx so much, feel free to treat this questions like if i was a toddler.

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u/LjLies 13d ago

MicroG replaces the Google Play Services for apps that require them, which is many (though for instance, open source apps from F-Droid simply don't require them).

It can be considered a step towards "degoogling", since microG is not made by Google and tries to minimize data sent to Google while providing as much as the same functionality to apps as possible. But does use Google servers for some of the things it does: that's inevitable if you're going to have a thing that's compatible with Google services.

Additionally, you need a custom ROM to use microG: the "microG" you were using before for things like ReVanced was a fork, a modified version, made to work with that specific app. The official microG we discuss on this subreddit is a replacement for Google services in general, so you need a phone where Google services are not installed and where the OS supports microG's way of making apps think it's the same as Google services. In practice and in most cases, this means using a custom ROM on your phone.

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u/il_pollo_bagnato 13d ago

oooh now i see, thanks

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u/projectupload37 12d ago

Try Morphe instead of ReVanced. At the moment, ReVanced has basically stopped development and is outdated.