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If you cared about privacy you wouldn’t be using any Google products.
Quite true. As a Google Fi subscriber since 2015, I still rely on them for that service, but I've weaned off everything else to the extent that I can. There was a time that I thought the value outweighed the spying, but its impossible for me to maintain that delusion now.
We're on the same boat with Fi. I only use it because it's the only service I know about that I can pause and not have to pay when I'm not in the US. I don't live in the US, but I but do have to travel there very frequently, so it's an acceptable trade-off for me. And it works perfectly fine on GrapheneOS even With GMS off.
I've been out of the US since late '22 and they still haven't cut my data or sent one email about it. I expected to lose it after 90 days. I get a google play services error once in a while about Fi needing it to have all permissions, but I don't have any problems leaving them off. My next install of lineage I'm going to try no GApps and see if it still works. I know the LOS team say you need it for Fi.
Yeah. I also use it when I travel to Canada, Ecuador, Colombia and México, and it just works. I'm telling you, it's been a life saver because the roaming fees from my country's providers are ridiculously high.
I've been expecting Google to kill it like they tend to do with everything people start to like, but it's been over 7 years already, and still going.
I have no idea what the impact would be with LOS, but with GrapheneOS, I don't even get error messages. Granted, I did use play services while setting up the Fi app, then un-installed it all and update from Aurora. Flawless.
Don't jinx it!!! 😉
I'll be checking this out tonight; thanks for the tip!
Enjoy.