A closer look at e/OS: Murena's privacy-first 'deGoogled' Android alternative

• aa4mg

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  Android Auto 4 microG

dont know how up to date it is but you can use android auto without gapps

https://github.com/sn-00-x/aa4mg

• os-issue-tracker

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  Issue tracker for GrapheneOS Android Open Source Project hardening work. Standalone projects like Auditor, AttestationServer and hardened_malloc have their own dedicated trackers.

  

> Everything works including Google Pay.

Wait, what? What did I miss here -> https://github.com/GrapheneOS/os-issue-tracker/issues/1986 ?

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• GmsCore

  429 7,013 9.5 Java

  Free implementation of Play Services

  

microG itself connects directly to Google: 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?

• DivestOS-Build

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  Everything needed to build DivestOS, a more private and more secure aftermarket mobile operating system.

  

> It's about not using unaudited closed source code which cannot be proven to be secure or private [..]

Degoogling is not deblobbing and Lineage or /e/ use plenty of closed source software during runtime. The top parent and DivestOS author really is deblobbing* to some degree, but forks of LineageOS that introduce measures of "degoogling" hold onto vendor firmware blobs on androids /vendor partition for functionality. Those aren't known for connecting to the Google hivemind though.

* https://github.com/Divested-Mobile/DivestOS-Build/blob/de3ba...

My interpretation of the term degoogling fits the second part of your sentence, "getting away from online services": it is user agency in what network connections can occur, so either by default or optionally users can stop any signaling coming from the device they use. They don't have that freedom with the software the device came with.

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