Comment by palata

One thing with the sandboxed Play Services being that Google has fewer permissions on the device, so presumably they can collect less data.

Which I believe is GrapheneOS' argument when people praise microG: microG being open source does not fundamentally add privacy: apps using microG will phone to Google's servers (that's the whole point of microG). What microG solves is that it removes the Play Services that are root on your device, and it turns out that sandboxed Play Services do that as well.

> The idea for more privacy is you run open source apps instead that just don't collect data.

Yep exactly, I just wanted to add about the sandboxed Play Services, because it was not obvious to me at first :)