microG - What you need to know, A conversation with its developer : Marvin Wißfeld

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@anon38440295

Probably the exposure notification is enabled by default in 0.2.13

“Probably” is too vague for me. I attach importance to concrete “knowledge”.

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@dalas.revo

And I remember the fact that an enabled Exposure Notification only happens if one actively installs an app which utilises this feature and explicitly enables the feature.

This “fact” is not my personal experience. In GmsCore v0.2.12.203315 the option ‘Exposure Notifications’ is displayed by default and looks at ‘OFF’ by default. Several tests on different devices have shown this.

For all installations without exception the “Exposure Notifications” were set to “Off” by default. Only when an application explicitly asked for “Turn on Exposure Notifications” and confirmed with Tap on the button “Turn on”, the activation took place. [Source]

An example of several:

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@dalas.revo

Now ask yourself: can’t this be part of a unbelievable sophisticated conspiracy? Who says the switch wasn’t simply removed to fool us all?

I don’t ask this question because I don’t have any conspiracy theories.