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  • Yeah. I’ve been using it for years.

    GrapheneOS prefers using sandboxed Google Play instead for security and functionality reasons, but they are pretty obscure. In theory, microG could be used to install a malicious app with elevated permissions, since it has the ability to bypass security checks. If you trust the apps you install, then it’s a non-issue. It’s potentially less functional as an open-source implementation, since it is not a perfect 1 to 1 replacement of Google services. You may find that there are certain functions it just can’t do. I don’t know of any specific examples.













  • If you’re in a conversation about Shizuku, you should probably be downloading apps from the source. I’ve donated the equivalent of buying the app, but you don’t have to pay anything to get the full features.

    A lot of open source developers subsidize their users by charging on the Play Store while offering the complete app on F-Droid or other code repo (like GitHub).




  • It is recording (v), but it’s not producing a recording (n). That will probably turn out to be an important legal distinction.

    There will be a lot more legal complications with the summaries because people will have an expectation of reliability. It’s pretty unlikely that they will be consistently reliable enough, or consistently avoid privacy traps, like HIPAA.

    Regardless, it’s creepy.