How to completely remove MicroG, not stop, not turn off, not freeze, but completely remove (cut) from the phone.
Why? What for? Answer - I do not need any replacement for Google Play Services, its libraries and services. MicroG - Wikipedia
I also see trackers in MicroG com.google.android.analytics.servicece.AnalyticsService and this program requires too many unnecessary permissions: contacts, storage, location, sms, phone, body sensors, spoof package signature, etc.)
This program has penetrated too deeply into the system!!!
Why don’t the /e/OS developers provide this option to the user, especially since /e/OS is sponsored by MicroG?
You cannot. /e/ os is entirely designed on the premise that people want a compromise between greater privacy compared to stock Android, and still having the ease-of-use of access to some Google Play services.
You would be better served choosing a different distribution of Android.
https://doc.e.foundation/support-topics/guide-micro-g
/e/OS our privacy-focused, open-source mobile operating system comes pre-installed with microG. /e/OS users who want to enjoy using popular mobile applications can do so, while being protected from the data mining of big tech.
My question is related to the fact that I want to remove microG, it is not needed! Without it, the system can work just as well, especially if microG contains rekers and has too many permissions.
It seems to me that the user should have the right to choose!
Why not give the user a choice? Some will want to use Google services, and some, and in my opinion the majority, will NOT want to use MicroG since users have chosen the DeGoogle operating system and want to follow this philosophy!
Let’s vote openly! And I am ready to make a donation so that I can download the operating system without MicroG!
This is wishful thinking and you (at least should) know it. One of the main selling points with which /e/OS gets users to migrate from stock vendor Android is that supposedly all their Apps still work. microG is needed for this, and it does a rather good job overall.
This is the correct answer to the question being asked.
Security is a spectrum between impenetrability and convenience. Prior to /e/OS, attempts to go Google-free were problematic. Apps broke in weird ways, they’d work except for a certain function, and so on. I dream of a day when it is possible to use solely FOSS apps that don’t require Play Services, but that’s exceedingly unlikely to happen as long as banking apps and Whatsapp exist.
/e/OS makes it possible for me to run apps that don’t work on fully Degoogled ROMs, while also mitigating the amount of data that ends up in Google’s clutches, and it does that by way of MicroG. I understand the complaint about the integration into the OS…but Play Services is essentially an abstraction layer that presents most of the APIs to apps, so it’s necessarily going to need to integrate pretty tightly into the OS in order to do its job.
This enables /e/OS to provide the compromise of “leave Google, but as a rule, keep third party apps working seamlessly”. If you’re particularly concerned about the Google Analytics service (which, I’m not quite sure actually sends data to Google; it’s entirely possible that it shows itself to apps and then sends the data to /dev/null), you can use App Manager to prevent the data from actually going anywhere.
If that’s untenable, as it likely is, based on your original statement, that’s understandable! If you’ve got an LG G6, you can install a completely stock LineageOS fork, Android 14 is supported by that handset. There’s also an unofficial port of crDroid, which is also an excellent Google-free option. There are guides to using Davx5 to sync your PIM data with your Murena account, if that is of concern to you.
I forced the stop of microG and disabled the use of the network etc …
I do not know what this is worth, I had also previously disabled everything but after updating it was reactivated on the network settings I had to deactivate again.
E/OS should really give us the possibility of removing it or completely deactivating it from the system by giving us the choice.
Er… I reccommend /e/ os? It has a nice balance of privacy and ease of use and you can buy phones with it preinstalled. I’ve not used any other distributions other than that, and stock.
Hello everyone,
In the App Lounge you can find an app with the name ¨Package Manager¨ from sunilpaulmathew.
In the description, of this app, you can read the following sentence: Do advanced tasks such as (need Root access) uninstall an individual or a batch of system apps (de-bloating). Perhaps this is what you need? I am a simple user, so I did not try it myself.
It won’t be logical since LineageOS doesn’t have such a choice of phones, unlike /e/OS.
And it seems to me that LineageOS and Google are good friends! I wouldn’t want /e/OS to go the same way. There are a HUGE number of examples when the evil corporation Google bought or destroyed open source developers!
As for whats app and banking applications, the user himself cannot refuse it, I come to the bank and if they ask me for whats app I say that I don’t have it, I also tell my friends about it and this solves many problems. No need to compromise, delete and forget whats app and other garbage!
I understand what you mean, but this is not a solution, MicroG must not be in the operating system, you can use the phone without MicroG just as easily!
MicroG is needed by those who use Google.
Those who do not use Google do not need any replacement in the form of MicroG.
since LineageOS doesn’t have such a choice of phones, unlike /e/OS.