Seriously! Shouldn’t it be illegal to break into someone’s private life and do stuff behind the scenes without the device’s owners knowledge?
Android users: “iPhones are stupid, Apple is a greedy and evil company”
Also Android users:
Downloading a lot of stuff in the background over slow networks? Or facilitating some kind of cloud backup/save data?
Where funny
just vibing (doing stasi stuff)
Spying on you :P
That’s why I replaced it with MicroG:
https://microg.org/Is Google Play Services not the app that maintains a constant connection to the server for the purposes of receiving notifications for all apps? As well as other things apps on your phone might be using like location services.
This is one app I’d expect to run 24/7, but happy to be corrected on this.
This is basically correct, though it also does other stuff.
EDIT: Location services is in its own process tho
That’s not Google, these are the APIs that power the whole OS. Most of the apps on your phone use them.
Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:
- Scan for active malware
- Nearby Share
- App attestation (Required for banking apps)
- Encrypted backup of your data
- Autofill
- All push notifications
- Find my device
- Basic telemetry (talked about elsewhere in this thread but it’s telling Google who you are and where you are)
Even if you remove all telemetry you’d need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.
Can anyone share your experience with installing LineageOS on a Xiaomi device? I was thinking doing this as the only way of removing google from the smartphone but the build for my device is community (not stable)
