I’ve been proudly using Lineage OS with microg on my phone for a while now, and while it wasn’t ideal, it was good for my daily use.

Now that i’m traveling, however, i really miss some important features, like a properly working geolocation service (i’m using the Mozilla one and it’s slow and buggy), and a proper navigator, sad to say that google maps works just too well for certain things like buses or trains.

Magic earth was okay till i moved with car, i could get a position on google maps and then get there with my car and the navigator was working good, however when i need to move by foot or transports is terrible, it takes 10 minutes to find your position approximatively, only working with mobile data, and it doesn’t follow you when you move…

So i found myself in some unhappy situations where i would need to rely on someone else’s phone to not get lost in a city or to call an uber to my right location. I also got lost when i needed to move only by walking. Of course you can get wherever you want with older methods, like asking to people or signs, but sometimes you just need quick solutions that are reliable.

Is there any real way to use gmaps unonimously except that with the containerized version that graphebe offers?

I do not really want to buy a Pixel and give google more money.

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
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      1 year ago

      They are in so far as they give you more control. You can restrict what play services has access to. But play services plus Google maps will still give out your location, your queries, and some phone identifier

    • random65837@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      More private in the sense of reducing the play services to a user level app, but its still Google. I’d go with and used the sandboxed play serviced myself because I want shit to work correctly, have my paid apps work, and most apps are going to at store license verification, even free ones, and from the security mindset, its the right move. Have you paid attention to all the rate limiting issues Aurora people have been having? Its basically useless.