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This is my understanding as well. However even this requires you to have various google-parts installed on your phone. These can be fairly obtrusive with permis
by techphys_91 10y ago
This is my understanding as well. However even this requires you to have various google-parts installed on your phone. These can be fairly obtrusive with permissions and such.
- hackuser 10y agoMy understanding is that Play Services sends information about the user to Google periodically.
- kuschku 10y agoCorrect. And Signal’s .apk includes a Google library for cloud messaging, but that library also collects information about the user and sends it to Google, even if the user does not have Google Services installed.