• Ashelyn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    They have Google services but through a third party wrapper called MicroG, which keeps it sandboxed to a degree that you can keep it from doing system-level actions like this

    edit: not microG, as evidenced by the strikethrough I put in very soon after receiving the first of several replies clarifying the situation. I would encourage you to read one of them before adding your own. <3

    • Bad_Engineering@fedia.io
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      You actually have to implicitly install google services on GrapheneOS, but if you do install it then it is sandboxed.

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      Gos doesnt use MicroG. MicroG is a foss implementation of googles APIs, with very ways to be tracked, and the ability to turn those components off. Graphene says “you get nothing or you get these closed source black boxes we sandboxed”.