Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
by notpushkin on Thursday December 01, 2022 @08:25AM
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Or you could have the open source microG and miss out only on Google Pay (and some bank apps that wanna validate SafetyNet for some reason). If you disable FCM / push notification support, your phone won't even need to interact with Google servers at all.
Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
by Aldo_MX on Thursday December 01, 2022 @10:03AM
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How do I install that microG thing in a Huawei Mate 50? Oh wait, I can't.
Re:Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo
by notpushkin on Friday December 02, 2022 @04:20AM
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Tough luck! That said, Huawei phones don't siphon your information to Google (of course they leak it to Huawei instead :-)
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If you want to install microG super easy and are still choosing your next phone, get one supported by LineageOS: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/
Then instead of the official LineageOS build, get one from here with microG preinstalled: https://download.lineage.microg.org/
For low budget folks, a lot of Xiaomi phones are supported. You'll have to sign up for their account and wait for a few days, but otherwise the process is pretty straightforward. E. g. this is for my current phone: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ginkgo/install
Also, we have a gatekeeper called Google Play Services. In other words, even if you have a custom ROM, you need that all-encompassing framework to have nice things.
Clients may differ, but the cloud platform and the connector which enables all these "Android" things is closed source, and controlled by Google.