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>Any device with Google services installed has all apps scanned at least once per day.

You can turn it off, so it's not "any". At best it's "most".

Also I daily drive graphene and that has no Google play services

Unless you want push notifications.

Then you can sandbox

Their app is still running all the time. I do not know what exactly it is collecting, but I'm sure it sends a lot of information to Google. Even just the fact that Google knows my IP (which is otherwise dynamically assigned) at any time is too much.

On the other hand, if you try selectively enabling and disabling the service, the push notifications stop working. LineageOS + MicroG is a much better solution if you only need them occasionally and if you prefer an app which does not actively (try to) spy on you.

>Even just the fact that Google knows my IP (which is otherwise dynamically assigned) at any time is too much.

>LineageOS + MicroG is a much better solution

Doesn't microg still connect to google? I'm not sure what your threat model is here.

I get signal notifications. Anyone I want to talk to uses signal.

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