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Re:A Guide to Using Android Without Selling Your Soul to Google by ForHackernews on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:16AM (#17624367)
No mention of MicroG? https://microg.org/

It's a very impressive project to reimplement or stub out the Google Play Services APIs so you can use third-party apps that rely on them.

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Re:A Guide to Using Android Without Selling Your Soul to Google by seba_dos1 on Friday July 27, 2018 @09:28AM (#17625783)
They even maintain a premade fork of LineageOS with microG preinstalled, which I recommend if you ever need to use Android: https://lineage.microg.org/
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Re:A Guide to Using Android Without Selling Your Soul to Google by mbaeten on Friday July 27, 2018 @04:46AM (#17624493)
To be aware, this still uses google servers. I'm not quite sure what the benefit is then (beside it being open source).
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Re:A Guide to Using Android Without Selling Your Soul to Google by ForHackernews on Saturday July 28, 2018 @04:03AM (#17632168)
It doesn't have to use Google services, it's FLOSS and configurable. For example, you can replace the location backend with one that uses Mozilla's location service: https://github.com/microg/IchnaeaNlpBackend

Furthermore, I think there's a difference between closed-source software running on your device reporting who-knows-what and open-source software that makes known, specific requests to cloud services.

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