How much Google is in SFOS?
asked 2018-11-15 21:59:08 +0300
Hi there!
The main reason for me to buy a Jolla phone was to buy an European phone, plus Jolla's commitment to privacy. For one or the other reason I had to look behind the GUI and found several times the word google popping up. There are processes running having google in their name and I recently I saw this:
[D] unknown:0 - ProfileManager::syncProfile( "google.Signon" )
[D] unknown:0 - found a valid sync profile with the given name: "google.Signon"
So I was wondering how much google software is build in Sailfish and what impact this could have regarding privacy.
Before I can answer this, I have to ask you the following: 1st do you have android support enabled or not? 2nd did you add a google account?
naytsyrhc ( 2018-11-15 22:45:01 +0300 )editI believe I have android support enabled since I am using two android apps and no, I do not have a google account.
FloR707 ( 2018-11-15 22:56:38 +0300 )editits your prize for running android apps. try to go native, or use the browser.
cpb ( 2018-11-15 23:05:10 +0300 )editActually this is part of my question. What is the price? Does activating android support mean that my phone will send information to google services? I am not a programmer and I never looked into the "open source" code provided by google. Does using a "free" google script automatically mean that you share information with google?
FloR707 ( 2018-11-15 23:32:44 +0300 )editAndroid and Google are not the same. You can have an Android device without any Google on it - e.g. AOSP or Lineage OS. Even the in Sailfish currently still underlying framework AlienDalvik for Android - nothing to do by default with Google.
My bet is the above piece is very likely to be associated with adding a google account for mail - there you need signin to log into Google. Makes sense to me.
Kaiserpinguin ( 2018-11-16 00:26:20 +0300 )edit