I am using a custom ROM, dating from the heyday of CyanogenMod. It is easy enough to remove unwanted system apps (if you've got root access); in my case, that'd be the proprietory Google Apps. Android works just fine without them. None of the forty or so apps that I've got installed strictly need Play Services. Besides the practicality, it's matter of principle. Free, as in speech, not beer.
On Friday, 12 April 2019 20:45:37 UTC+1, David W. Jones wrote: > > On April 12, 2019 8:37:01 AM HST, Keith Hutcheon <hutch...@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > > I don't have the Play Store or Play Services installed. > > > > > >On Friday, 12 April 2019 08:15:57 UTC+1, David W. Jones wrote: > >> > >> On April 11, 2019 9:06:38 PM HST, Keith Hutcheon <hutch...@gmail.com > >> <javascript:>> wrote: > >>> > >>> I'm not meaning to be confrontional, just trying to understand. > >Network > >>> logging shows that K-9 Mail (F-droid version) is sending and > >receiving > >>> packets to/from 157.240.1.35:0 (whois: > >>> edge-star-mini-shv-01-lht6.facebook.com:0). So why is K-9 Mail > >>> seemingly sharing data with Facebook? > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Hmm. I have K-9 Mail from the Google Play Store (I installed it > >before I > >> heard of F-droid). Could you test that one, too? > >> > >> Just in case what F-droid offers is somehow different from what's in > >the > >> Play Store. > > Then how do you have Android in the first place? My understanding is that > Play Services is the core of Android. > David W. Jones > gnome...@gmail.com <javascript:> > wandering the landscape of god > http://dancingtreefrog.com > > Sent from my Android device with F/LOSS K-9 Mail. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to k-9-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
