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Re:Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones by stkdump on Wednesday August 10, 2022 @11:39PM (#32421294)
I might be misunderstanding it, but microg is not (like the name suggests) a stripped down version of the google services. It is a reimplementation of the APIs that the google services provide to installed apps. It doesn't reuse any code (it couldn't, because the google services are not open source) and doesn't connect to google servers, afaik.
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Re:Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones by npteljes on Thursday August 11, 2022 @10:14AM (#32425919)
As per their motto, MicroG is "A free-as-in-freedom re-implementation of Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries". They absolutely do connect to Google services, just not with the proprietary Google implementation of the softwares, but with a reimplementation. I think this is very similar to NewPipe for example. Google's proprietary services, with an open source frontend.
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Re:Review of /e/ – Android-based alternative for mobile phones by 8293048883 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:37AM (#32424188)
> doesn't connect to google servers

Microg optionally supports Firebase Cloud Messaging for apps that require it for push notifications.

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