Android auto, will i lose my privacy?

[WPT]

Hi all,

I saw this handy website for installing Android auto on my e/os device. It will be handy to have.
Link: How to setup Android Auto with /e/OS?

But the whole reason i use a Fairphone 5 with e/os is to protect my privacy and to de-google as much as possible. Will i loose my privacy when i install and use Android auto?

Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/OS the deGoogled mobile OS and online services

[mihi]

Maybe this will help you to answer your question:

Android Auto included as standard?

Including it as standard is against everything Murena claims to stand for. I think they understand this and will not be doing it. However, if they ever do I shall be moving to another OS.

[WPT]

I saw this comment indeed. Although its just one comment about the case. And also the situation that Murena is sharing a guide to install it made me look for more confirmation.

I had the hope that after installing those apps, the Murena system would do something to block the Google shit or something.

[mihi]

I don’t think so. People just really wanted to use Android Auto. The team gave the possibility but I don’t know how they would block something if you install a Google app. Sure it might use microG but the app itself (Android Auto) is still the app of Google which I would say also needs an account.

[GabrielT]

Exactly. It is clever of Murena to allow the possibility to install Google apps even if it is inconsistent, because for example, one might by forced to install a specific app for work but still want to benefit from the rest of /e/OS.

Regarding android auto, it is true that it totally defeats the purpose of /e/OS because it is not just a single app that will send everything that you do within that app to google (like Waze and google maps), but a lower-level application that will send to google everything that you do when using any app through AndroidAuto.

It would be wiser to use a murena phone with magic earth and a magnetic phone holder in a car, or else not use /e/OS at all and use Android auto in a standard android phone.

[CraigHB]

Yeah double spy, car spies on you, phone spies on you.

[MichielP80]

It is strange that you make eOS and that you also allow to install Android Auto with Google Apps.
sure i am happy that this will work for me after buying a new cardio, but some functions do not work without login to your Google Account. (i don´t need them)