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Best way to install sandboxed gapps only for selected apps (slrpnk.net)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi! What would be the best way to limit play serbices to only selected apps. I still need notifications to work from them, but would like to be sure that google can't access anything else

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't really understand this stuff super well, but... I suspect what it means is that Google can track you while google maps is open, BUT since it doesn't have access to the rest of your phone, they'll have no idea who you are anyway?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And you can also not log into Google Maps. It still lets you use map and navigation etc. But it is denied any explicit methods of identifying you and is left with only probabilistic methods (i.e. you are searching from the same network and therefore same public IP as another device that is known to Google as being associated with your account).