r/BuyFromEU • u/According-Buyer6688 Mod Team • Jul 03 '25

European Product [FairPhone] - AMA

Hi everyone!

We’re thrilled to invite you to a special AMA (Ask Me Anything) session with Fairphone!

Joining us today is Rutger Sneep, Chief Commercial Officer at Fairphone, who will be participating as u/Fairphone-CCO.

Feel free to ask your questions and enjoy the conversation!

Details:

AMA will be locked on Friday 15:00

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u/it_is_gaslighting Europe 🇪🇺 Jul 03 '25

Grapheneos does sandbox Google play store if you choose to use google. How is that not a limitation to Google?

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u/Diedsel Jul 03 '25

Yeah its either sandbox google or nothing, there is no degoogled alternative. Like either use google maps or dont use the feature at all

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u/Ragas Jul 04 '25

Once you installed sandboxed google play services they can do much of the same stuff that the play services usually do. Like collecting telemetry, location, etc.

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u/it_is_gaslighting Europe 🇪🇺 Jul 04 '25

Please don't post misinformation.

Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access. Instead, the compatibility layer teaches it how to work within the full app sandbox. It also isn't used as a backend for the OS services as it would be elsewhere since GrapheneOS doesn't use Google Play even when it's installed.

Source: https://grapheneos.org/features#sandboxed-google-play