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How much tracking does Play Services do on its own?

Is https://microg.org/ a suitable substitute?

[Youden → ForHackernews]

I ran MicroG recently and for many cases it works but there are still places where it's lacking. For example it doesn't play nice with taxi apps. Notifications and such work just fine though, as does Google's own Play Store.

[jdc → ForHackernews]

It's prerelease, so still needs a lot of work.