Re:There is no way to give a 3rd party app your location and...
by hilbert42 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @09:36AM
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"though results seem to vary by OEM"
Right, that's true. This happened to me a while back with a Huawei Honor phone when I bought the phone and put it aside pending having the bootloader unlocked. Unfortunately, in the interim Huawei withdrew locking privileges so I was left with the option of either paying for a bootloader crack or disabling the Google stuff and I took the latter option (this was a secondary phone and only used for web browsing so it didn't matter much anyway).
In fact, this turned out OK, even though I couldn't disable Google Play Services I turned off all its permissions and I could disable every other Google service including Chrome (several other browsers substituted). Moreover, the phone had no SIM—so no account—as it connected to the net via WiFi to a pocket wireless modem. In essence, there was nothing to leak so Google PS had nothing to report anyway.
Right, that's true. This happened to me a while back with a Huawei Honor phone when I bought the phone and put it aside pending having the bootloader unlocked. Unfortunately, in the interim Huawei withdrew locking privileges so I was left with the option of either paying for a bootloader crack or disabling the Google stuff and I took the latter option (this was a secondary phone and only used for web browsing so it didn't matter much anyway).
In fact, this turned out OK, even though I couldn't disable Google Play Services I turned off all its permissions and I could disable every other Google service including Chrome (several other browsers substituted). Moreover, the phone had no SIM—so no account—as it connected to the net via WiFi to a pocket wireless modem. In essence, there was nothing to leak so Google PS had nothing to report anyway.