Is our phone phoning home to Google?
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What about alternative Android-based OSes 'free' of google services? ... Volla OS, lineage OS.. Are they phoning home to google? What happens if there is MicroG installed ?
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What is "micro G"?
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@domubpkm said in Is our phone phoning home to Google?:
What about alternative Android-based OSes 'free' of google services? ... Volla OS, lineage OS.. Are they phoning home to google? What happens if there is MicroG installed ?
Ubuntu Touch IS NOT PHONING google.
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@keneda said in Is our phone phoning home to Google?:
Ubuntu Touch IS NOT PHONING google
Thank goodness for that !!
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@domubpkm
IMHO alternative android based OSes are OK.
The problem comes from the apps.Google's android is a huge spyware. And major popular apps are too.
IDK about microG, but if it allows an app that requires Google suite to work then I don't think that's a good privacy-oriented idea.That is also why I don't need Anbox because bringing android apps to Ubuntu Touch will bring those privacy issues with them.
Yes confinement is now isolating android apps rendering them almost unusable.
And I'm afraid a better integration is possible by relaxing the confinement which I'm opposed to.Just my 2 cents.
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@applee I would tend to think like you.
On the principle of the anbox, I accept its usefulness, while being aware that there might be a risk of importing viruses that would have whatever effect. -
@domubpkm
As you understood, that's just an opinion.
And on certain circumstances I could make an exception for app X or Y.But I prefer to live without the convenience than becoming slave of it.
It's a personal choice and I understand that people make another one.
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@prog-amateur said in Is our phone phoning home to Google?:
Another question, do you know what is the 10.15.19.82 address ? I have tried to reach it in a browser to find the owner without success.
I don't have a UT phone at the moment, but the very same IP address exists in the list of known hosts I have connected to via ssh. That info plus 10.xx.xx.xx being a private network address (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_network) makes me think it is the default (kind of internal) address of a UT phone.
And now that I typed it... that IP is mentioned in the GSI porting notes at https://github.com/ubports/porting-notes/wiki/Generic-system-image-(GSI)
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@ingo Thank you very much, I appreciate this detailed feedback !
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