It will be nothing but blocking YouTube downloaders or revanced
Coming to Magisk near you. Android sucks more and more.
Guess is finally about time to move to grapheneos
does graphene os solve this? I thought they were mostly google under the hood
They have Google services
but through a third party wrapper called MicroG, which keeps itsandboxed to a degree that you can keep it from doing system-level actions like thisedit: not microG, as evidenced by the strikethrough I put in very soon after receiving the first of several replies clarifying the situation. I would encourage you to read one of them before adding your own. <3
You actually have to implicitly install google services on GrapheneOS, but if you do install it then it is sandboxed.
It definitely helps. In GrapheneOS, Google Play Services can be installed, but it is sandboxed and doesn’t even have network access unless you allow it.
It solves so much more though, like through scoping you can give an app access to your contacts, or just specific contacts; to the app, those specific contacts are the only contacts that exist on your phone.
Two things:
- The definition of “Harmful” can mean anything.
- This includes sideloaded apps.
This includes sideloaded apps.
This exactly. I have a FOSS app called VirtualXPosed installed (although I never use it anymore), which creates a “virtual android” in which apps can be installed and be manipulated in ways that would normally require root, despite me not having it on my phone.
Despite having “play protect” disabled, google still constantly sends me notifications about it being harmful.
So revanced, youtube downloader apps, etc. but literal malware probably will be unaffected same as play protect.
