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I have realised, that the Google Play Store and Services are invisible installed and activated on my Intex Aqua Fish phone. Is this a standard of the Android emulation of SailfishOS or a customisation of Intex.

I don’t want to use Google Play Store and Services for security and privacy reasons. It is malware with the impact of massive surveillance. CopperheadOS, LineageOS and UnaOS demonstrate, that Android is working without Google Play Store and Services. At least CopperheadOS and UnaOS have consequently removed Google malware from Android.

I appreciate, that an alternative Android Appstore is installed on my Intex Aqua Fish and further more are offered in Jolla Harbour like FDroid.

Can someone explain, whether and how the Android emulation in SailfishOS is working with Google Play Store and Google Play Services? Unfortunately I can’t uninstall them, for example with the App Power Clean, that is offered in Jolla Harbour.

Anyway I’m missing transparency of security and privacy settings and behaviour for Android apps in SailfishOS. Does someone, which data is really shared with android apps. Is the Android emulation sandboxed and separated from the SailfishOS? The only transparent security setting is contact sharing. It seems, hat the geo position is shared as well, that you can only switch off in general. I’m glad, that the user can shut down the Android emulator at least.

I’m thinking of developing an open source test app, that tries to get as much data as possible to give the user a report about security and privacy leaks of the operation system. Of course this should be an on device process only.

I have realised, that the Google Play Store and Services are invisible installed and activated on my Intex Aqua Fish phone. Is this a standard of the Android emulation of SailfishOS or a customisation of Intex.

I don’t want to use Google Play Store and Services for security and privacy reasons. It is malware with the impact of massive surveillance. CopperheadOS, LineageOS and UnaOS demonstrate, that Android is working without Google Play Store and Services. At least CopperheadOS and UnaOS have consequently removed Google malware from Android.

I appreciate, that an alternative Android Appstore is installed on my Intex Aqua Fish and further more are offered in Jolla Harbour like FDroid.

Can someone explain, whether and how the Android emulation in SailfishOS is working with Google Play Store and Google Play Services? Unfortunately I can’t uninstall them, for example with the App Power Clean, that is offered in Jolla Harbour.

Anyway I’m missing transparency of security and privacy settings and behaviour for Android apps in SailfishOS. Does someone, which data is really shared with android apps. Is the Android emulation sandboxed and separated from the SailfishOS? The only transparent security setting is contact sharing. It seems, hat the geo position is shared as well, that you can only switch off in general. I’m glad, that the user can shut down the Android emulator at least.

I’m thinking of developing an open source test app, that tries to get as much data as possible to give the user a report about security and privacy leaks of the operation system. Of course this should be an on device process only.