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Psylo iOS browser takes aim at digital fingerprinting
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False.Graphene does not have Gservices installed by default
Did I say it did? Maybe I worded it wrong but I meant that you need to use (and install it) to use the vast majority of apps, and it's deeply integrated, in the play store and apps.. and affects many parts of android
If you do install it, which you probably will unless you're okay with living 10 years in the past and losing time, then you're pretty much back to square one
Non-sandboxed play services have vastly more permissions and access to device information; it's a step back from not having it, but utterly disengenuous to call it back to square one. It has far more privileged permission, and as you admit yourself, we don't know what is in its code, so we don't know what it is potentially doing with that permission.
yea I guess, I meant it goes from spyware to really intrusive
I'm typing this via GrapheneOS and I don't at all feel like I'm living 10 years in the past lol.
Even if I was, at least the internet would be a less shitty place than it is now, there would be almost no LLM/AI crap, I wouldn't constantly have to be as vigilant against big corps datamining my privacy as much as I am now.... Actually, 2015 was a pretty decent time compared to now. Got a time machine?
and you don't have play services installed?
oh so you're one of them