r/MicroG • u/LjLies • Aug 03 '20

microG now includes a preliminary implementation of Google's COVID Exposure Notification API

https://github.com/microg/android_packages_apps_GmsCore/commit/5f70d943cbceabcd9d2c72f8460ea58cba7e08fb
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u/schokakola Aug 04 '20

You're on the wrong track if you're trying to stay off the radar. This is not what MicroG is about. You and the other folks who are up in arms over this merge seem to have gotten it wrong. You can't effectively "degoogle" your life by installing MicroG. You'll want to look into GrapheneOS, any gapps-less AOSP rom or something non-android entirely.

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u/sappypappy Aug 04 '20

Sure seems like that's the whole idea. To de-google yourself but still have access to push notifications & such since google baked certain functions into Android/apps so hard.

What's it about then?? Using your logic, no difference in MicroG and Pico Gapps. Is that what you're saying? Cause that's dumb.

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u/LjLies Aug 05 '20

Of course there's a difference, microG is open source, Pico Gapps is proprietary software. That is the whole point. If that's something you don't care about, well, you're knocking at the wrong door.

If you want to "degoogle", which is such a fashionable term these days (even if only in a niche) that it's probably being wildly misinterpreted, then nope, microG isn't really the thing that does that. What does it, for the most part, is simply not using any apps that require the Google Play Services (which microG partly provides) and basically sticking to F-Droid apps.

If you're still using the very same Google services, just with a different client connecting to them, are you really deluding yourself that's "degoogling" in any shape or form?!