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
Maybe this will help you to answer your question:
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.
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.
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.
Yeah double spy, car spies on you, phone spies on you.