Again the only advantage of MicroG compared to play services is that it's open source, you still have all the same privacy and security issues.

Its already a lot of work to support the official play services and make them work in a sandbox, supporting another layer in between is more headache than its worth it or they have time/money for. Not to mention that sandboxed play services work with much more feature than MicroG such as android auto.

Its always amusing to me when people use "conspiracy theory", a word deliberately popularized and weaponized by said agencies (CIA Memo 1035-960) to mock people for doubting and asking questions about there supposed operations and tactics.

"The FBI didn’t have to break Tor; they just used conventional police mechanisms to get Kim to confess."

Second link:

"From the limited information The Tor Project has, we believe that one user of the long-retired application Ricochet was fully de-anonymized through a guard discovery attack. This was possible, at the time, because the user was using a version of the software that neither had Vanguards-lite, nor the vanguards addon, which were introduced to protect users from this type of attack. This protection exists in Ricochet-Refresh, a maintained fork of the long-retired project Ricochet, since version 3.0.12 released in June of 2022."

Did you even read those links?

You don't seem to understand how play service / MicroG work. Maps or Auto Apps aren't the ones having the privilaged access but Play Service and MicroG.

>NetGuard would warn me if it did. I would assume it is not even running when I disable it

Since play services/microg have higher privileges than NetGuard they could just bypass it.

>But avoiding Google (and other big tech) is the reason I am not on a cheaper and more convenient phone with regular Android, so if GrapheneOS refuses to support an alternative to Google Play Services, I'm not too happy about it. If there are real problems with microG then I'm sure the authors would be interested in a better solution too.

That doesn't make any sense at all. GrapheneOS by default has _0_ Google connections unlike LineageOS, /E/ or any other AOSP fork. MicroG is not an alternative to not using play services at all = actually avoiding Google, but a open source reimplementation that still has all the privacy and security issues of regular play services. GrapheneOS sandboxes Google play services only have the privacy issues since just like with MicroG you still connect to Google = not actually avoiding Google.

The issue with no notification without play services can be easily fixed by not using privacy hostile apps which only work with them.

Germany can't launch or even operate and maintain them without the US.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kboQ0quk1uM

Usually removed between 2 and 4 years since 2020

Your claim:

No because here are 4 games from the last 5 years which where removed after ~6 months which means it is often removed before that time.

My rebuttal:

That's 4 games in 5 years from well over 150 denuvo games since 2020. Simple math should tell you that below 3% is not "often".

But somehow that means my claim is false...

It is well known that denuvo DRM is a SaaS subscription software for many years. I'm not gonna entertain your tantrum further for something you can trivially look up and should already know if you where knowledgeable enough to actually discuss the topic.

Like with most religions which "the science" very much qualities for at this point, there believers will just pick and choose what to believe and use to get there way.

No system will stay secure once it does not receive updates. That does not exclude it from being more secure than another system based on security feature merits as long as it does get updated.

>Hardening is one part of security, patchability another. Android lacks in the latter.

That is not an inherent flaw with android but OEM devices shipping modified android they don't bother keeping up to date. Some OEMs are trying to mitigate this by increasing security update support up to 7 years which still is not long enough but also doesn't make them less secure than a desktop that gets updated longer.

What people forget is that not only desktop and mobile phone software is different but also the hardware. If your desktop pc hardware is out of date / EOL nobody cares usually. Meanwhile on a phone this can be a lot more relevant because security expectations and threat models are a lot higher, for example see all the zero/one click compromise headlines.

Followed by

>Please don’t respond with sarcasm.

Is my kind of humor. Just because they follow ESG scoring doesn't mean they actually care, if anything it means they very much don't.

They already trying there best to marginalize non chrome, non residential ip, non lodged in user not to mention there decade long silicon valley political purity targeting.