Google Video Player in /e/OS on Fairphone 3?

Dear Friends of de-googling,

this morning I had nearly dropped my coffee over the desktop: while opening a video file on my /e/-Fairphone, I saw the attached message.


For a moment I felt literally stalked by the big G.
Do we have an alternative to get rid of google?
Have a nice day!
Frank

Regain your privacy! Adopt /e/ the unGoogled mobile OS and online servicesphone

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That.s worst. Could you please add a bug/issue on gitlab ?

As alternative use SimpleGallery from f-droid

Thank you for this hint. Does SimpleGallery play video too?

The Gogol player is part of the gallery and come’s from AOSP (Android Open Source Project) YES Android is Open Source !
The player will probably be replaced but it work’s without connecting Gogol servers and there were priorities for the little /e/team

A second question: I know, there is a description of Howto place a bug report on git. But I don’t know where I saw this. Could you please help me, finding the way to give the bug report on gitlab?

It does.

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Pls have a look.here https://doc.e.foundation/how-tos/report-an-issue

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Thank you - I just installed and tested Simple Galery. Works perfect! :ok_hand:

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Perhaps they should just delete every “Google” text string in the LineageOS sources /e/ is based on.
Nobody would have complained about the “Video Player” :slight_smile: .

The Google mention has been removed but the modification has to be taken into account and it could take some time.

This issue is similar than those two :


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