No, the LineageOS devs say that their project does not aim to completely de-Google the OS, only remove Google Play Services and some Google applications like Maps. Thus, geolocation, DNS and login portal detection in LineageOS still use Google's servers.

Ugh, that's very disappointing then, I've always advised Lineage to people who wanted to deGoogle their phones :/

You are literally on a phone that was/is heavily subsidized by Google. They hold all the keys and own all the doors, if you want to degoogle, go Purism/Pinephone/Linuxphone.

To be fair, lineage+microg is probably the best you can get while still keeping a reasonable level of convenience (that is, still running android and most popular apps).

agree. Even better with same reasonable level of convenience is iodé

There's GrapheneOS if you have a Pixel 2+ or /e/ os for other phones.

/e/ is based on LineageOS, not even the latest at that, and searching on it a bit smells a bit of BS.

What about /e/ ? It's been a while I haven't heard about them.

Least. Fucking. Searchable. Name. Ever.

Arguable worse than R, C, or Word.

"Gee, let's take the most frequently occurring letter in English usage, and bracket it with Web-significant non-text punctuation."

"e Foundation" will find them.

No idea on status/news.

https://e.foundation

I follow Gaël Duval (the founder of /e/OS on Mastodon. https://mastodon.social/@gael

He gives regular status updates and they seem to be making good progress. I played with /e/OS a long time ago when it first came out and found the microg integration to be excellent (have had trouble in the past getting LineageOS + microg to work...). I am planning to flash /e/OS onto a phone again soon to see the latest progress.

And i think its for the best. This ROM is a joke: outdated, the store is full of outdated or non-original apps. Its a lack of respect for their users to market a device as secure with an unencrypted ROM with bootloader unlocked

OK, but it's weird to blame Google for Lineage's philosophical position. As it stands Google has contributed to LineagoOS far far more non-Googlr-dependent stuff than Lineage has.

I am pretty sure MicroG Lineage builds have NLPs other than Google's own preinstalled and being prerooted (or easily rooted with the extra zip) should be easily interchangeable from their settings. Though this is mostly an annoyance since an user installing Lineage should already be a little comfortable with adb and a terminal, it seems another sad step towards locking down Android furthermore.