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[–] 0oWow@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I had recently installed Grapheneos on my pixel, with a goal is determining what was responsible for all the senseless Google domains that a pixel normally contacts.

To my surprise disabling Network for the Google Services Framework and Play Services killed all of the nonsense. The only downside was that GSF has the push mechanism in it also, that many apps use for push notifications.

If only there were an alternate for push notifications that all apps would use.

Anyway, Grapheneos runs way cooler than Google's Malware version.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use ntfy for notifications, even on my vanilla Pixel.

The less google services apps you use the less google services needs to run.

[–] 0oWow@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks nice, but apps that use GSF for push won't use that. Or am I missing something on their website?

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Correct, an app has to be built without GSF. That's why I still use Vanilla Pixel for Google Maps and Android Auto.

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can still use sand boxed play services in grapheneos for that.

[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] eco_game@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

oh they fixed it, cool thanks

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 3 points 11 months ago

It is mentioned in their app store with instructions on how to activate it. Is it broken atm?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I use Osmand for maps.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Check out microG: https://microg.org/

I get all my push notifications, apps etc without any actual Google services on my phone. Remote google servers are still used, but in a more (though not fully) anonymous manner.

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

TIL that MicroG is used for more than just getting my Google account to work in YouTube ReVanced.

[–] 0oWow@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you using Grapheneos or another ROM?

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm using CalyxOS, it comes with microG. I wish graphene supported microG, but they don't.

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

With Graphene OS there is no Google services at all correct? No android auto?

[–] 0oWow@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They made it where you could sandbox all of the Google stuff, and Android Auto works fine too.

It's sandboxed, but still there. Most stuff should work as normal.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

No surprise, Play Services is Googles tracking framework on mobile too.