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		kuschku on June 19, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Massachusetts health notifications app installed w... The contact tracing apps send basically nothing. It's the rest of Android that's the issue. The point is that installing the contact tracing apps doesn't track you any more than before, neither on microg+fdroid than on a google stack.

sp332 on June 19, 2021 [–]

If someone has stock Android with Google Play Services disabled, the app won't work. The instructions to install the app don't mention installing a replacement, they tell users to enable Google Play Services.

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