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Re:The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now ava... by sp332 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:38PM (#21075142)
Why is MicroG's fork better than this one?

Edit: getting downvoted so for clarity this is the part of your comment I'm referring to: MicroG already distributes a fork of LineageOS that includes MicroG

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Re:The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now ava... by zamadatix on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @04:57PM (#21075377)
MicroG isn't a fork for starters.
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Re:The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now ava... by deno on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:07PM (#21075485)
They have LineageOS builds with MicroG integrated that are technically a fork, mostly because they add permission API to spoof Google apps, that got rejected upstream. Also they ship with two location backends (Mozilla and Nominatim), though disabled by default, and FDroid comes preinstalled as a system app.

https://lineage.microg.org/

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Re:The /e/ Google-free, pro-privacy Android clone is now ava... by sp332 on Wednesday September 25, 2019 @05:14PM (#21075569)
I didn't say MicroG was a fork.
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