ooli2@lemm.ee to DeGoogle Yourself@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 month agogoogle is not and never was your friend, it is a dictator tool: Degooglei.redd.itimagemessage-square383fedilinkarrow-up11.31Karrow-down144
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minus-squareERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoHow?
minus-squarefallingcats@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 month agoDisable “(improve) location accuracy” in settings and location history in Google settings (I think)
minus-squareben_dover@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agogoogle play services would still periodically query your location, even when on gps only. it’s a privileged app so you can’t even block it from doing so. MicroG (on lineageOS or calyxOS), or GrapheneOS’ sandboxed play services can help with that
minus-squaremerde alorslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoyou can simply uninstall play services. not even microG, and gps still works
minus-squaremerde alorslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-21 month agoadb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gms adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gsf adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.ims
you can use gps without play services.
How?
Disable “(improve) location accuracy” in settings and location history in Google settings (I think)
google play services would still periodically query your location, even when on gps only. it’s a privileged app so you can’t even block it from doing so. MicroG (on lineageOS or calyxOS), or GrapheneOS’ sandboxed play services can help with that
you can simply uninstall play services. not even microG, and gps still works
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gms
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.gsf
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.google.android.ims