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• F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

  I do that. F-Droid also requires that applications do not depend on any GMS component, but if you need anything from GMS, you can install https://microg.org/ and selectively enable the features you need. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• WhatsApp Introduces Ads in Its App

  I’m actually using Aurora and F-Droid. The only reason I have a Google account on my phone is for the Wallet (though it doesn’t work for me anyway :’) (And to be honest, things were working much smoother when I was on microG [0].) [0]: https://microg.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Google blocked Motorola use of perplexity AI, witness says

  > Or building your own services, presumably? In case of Android and Google Play services that is never going to work reliably. Your users will experience breakage on a regular interval and you will make yourself wildly unpopular with app developers (since they will be getting the bug reports of the subtle incompatibilities). Probably to a point where they might just block their app from running on your phone. All... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Escaping the Digital Treadmill: How to Daily Drive a Flip phone in 2025 - TCL Flip 2

  Many thanks to everyone that documented all of this information and the community around these phones: MicrogG Installer Revived - https://github.com/nift4 Magisk - https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk LSPosed - https://github.com/LSPosed/LSPosed Neutronscott - https://github.com/neutronscott/flip2/ MicroG - https://microg.org/ Whew-inc (FakeGapps fork) - https://github.com/whew-inc/FakeGApps And many more.. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• DOJ Will Push Google to Sell Off Chrome to Break Search Monopoly

  You can root your Android device and replace Google Play Services with microG (https://microg.org). - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Using Cloudflare on your website could be blocking RSS users

  It might well do, depending on what ChatGPT's app is asking the OS for. /e/OS is an Android fork that removes Google services and replaces them with open source stubs/re-implementations from https://microg.org/ I haven't tried the ChatGPT app, but I know that, for example my bank and other financial services apps work with on-device fingerprint authentication and no Google account on /e/OS. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• A Post-Google World

  Https://microg.org/ can replace services as needed. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Apple Introduces M4 Chip

  I, an engineer, am not doing this myself, too. There is a middle ground though: just use a privacy-oriented Android build, like DivestOS. [1] There are a couple caveats: 1. It is still a bit tricky for a non-technical person to install. Should not be a problem if they know somebody who can help, though. There's been some progress making the process more user friendly recently (e.g. WebUSB-based GrapheneOS... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Google Update Reveals AI Will Read All Your Private Messages

  ...will need to be rewritten to avoid Google Play Services. Not true. All that needs to happen is for open source developers to "re-implement Google’s proprietary Android user space apps and libraries". https://microg.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Which MicroG fork and version should I use?

  Which one should I use? Is this MicroG's official website right? (https://microg.org/). Source: over 2 years ago

• Use ChatGPT Android app w/o Google Play Store installed/enabled

  Have a look into https://microg.org/ . Revanced yt uses a fork of GmsCore for its non-root install, though you still have to log in with a google account. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Magic Earth: OSM based map and routing with croud sourced traffic data

  Google Play Services implements a lot of increasingly vital features and interfaces on Android. Not having it kills a good number of things people consider important, like push notifications (some apps are designed to still send push notifications like Signal, but it's kind of a hack and does drain the battery). If you're looking for almost the same functionality without google play services, MicroG[1] is an open... - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Google vs. the Open Web

  Try using https://microg.org/ to replace Google Play Services - it's not your average tech-savvy level. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

• Youtube

  Google's open source product but for this post I think the context was for MicroG in vanced/revanced project. Source: about 3 years ago

• Can Android bypass a Firewall installed on it? I Want to block all google "telemetry" with a Firewall

  Or using an Open-Source reimplementation of Google Framework like microG because I'm pretty sure that if you keep the Google Framework and block them with a Firewall, there's a number of things that rely on them that will stop working (like push notification and such). Source: about 3 years ago

• Is flashing a ROM a good option for a creating a dumbphone with only the necessary apps?

  I think one important question to ask yourself first is this: do you require push notifications (message notifications popping up in real time) or would you be fine seeing new messages only after you open an app? If the answer to the first part is yes, then your options become somewhat limited. Push notifications on Android are a service provided by Google, so you will need to flash the Google Apps (GApps) along... Source: about 3 years ago

• Cell phone

  The Blind Shell is in fact an Android phone, though as with much other blindness technology it is fairly out of date. It’s on a Snapdragon 625 platform running Android 8.1, security patch level sometime in 2019 (bear in mind that the phone was released in 2021). It is possible to install APKs of third-party apps if you know what you’re doing and the phone even has MicroG preinstalled for Play Services, but the... Source: over 3 years ago

• Issue with setup on /e/OS

  Since I am running a google-free Android ROM called /e/OS, I suspect that the app relies on some Google service during the connection process. But because the operating system only uses microG to re-implement some Google services, a very uncommon error gets thrown, which won't get caught, because there aren't many Android devices without Google services out there. Source: over 3 years ago

• Notification

  You might consider microG. One of the main sponsors of that project is the /e/ Foundation, which is also creating a great degoogled Android targeting a high privacy protection. Source: over 3 years ago

• Android Privacy

  Also, scroll to the bottom of this page and see who sponsors microG ... https://microg.org/. Source: over 3 years ago

• GrapheneOS as my daily-driver mobile OS

  So on my previous couple of phones I tried to do something like what GrapheneOS promises. I had a de-googled version of Android, with the microg project adding support for apps that needed Google services. - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago