The feds are also weighing “less severe” options, such as requiring Google to share data with rival search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Microsoft’s Bing.
By my understanding google play services is basically just shared libraries and APIs for doing stuff and not as tied into Google specifically as its name might suggest
Wikipedia suggests it gives access to certain information which all look like data Google would want to track. I don’t think I’m crazy to assume Google is doing something fucky while it gets values when requested on by an app, or whenever the heck they want.
Disable it and it will bitch notifications every often, every day, and that can’t be disabled. It claims it need to be on for your phone to work but not so in my case when I only use apps from F-Droid (like a dialer, text message, calculator, Lemmy client).
Many apps for Android rely on Google Play Services which I don’t know exactly what it’s doing but collecting data is a good bet.
Do we end up with worse maps then?
In the short term? Possibly.
In the long term, it opens up space for competition, which is better for end users, advertisers, small business, and more.
By my understanding google play services is basically just shared libraries and APIs for doing stuff and not as tied into Google specifically as its name might suggest
Wikipedia suggests it gives access to certain information which all look like data Google would want to track. I don’t think I’m crazy to assume Google is doing something fucky while it gets values when requested on by an app, or whenever the heck they want.
Disable it and it will bitch notifications every often, every day, and that can’t be disabled. It claims it need to be on for your phone to work but not so in my case when I only use apps from F-Droid (like a dialer, text message, calculator, Lemmy client).