Paid apps from Playstore

pdagenius

New to GOS. I would like to retrieve a couple of paid apps from Playstore. Am wondering if I temporarily login to Playstore, retrieve the paid apps and then logout again, what data about the phone will I be letting Google see.

Although a bit of a nuisance, I do have an android tablet with a Google account. So I could download the apps to that and then extract them. Finally transferring them to my phone via cloud storage or USB.

Any other thoughts?

MetropleX

pdagenius what data about the phone will I be letting Google see?

The Phone Model.

mythodical

pdagenius At a minimum, Google would obtain your phone model, a list of installed applications, and your IP address.

If you have other Google apps installed, such as Google Phone or Contacts, it is my understanding that telemetry from those apps are shared via IPC to the Play components and uploaded to Google by that channel (even if network is blocked for the Phone/Contact apps).

Ganipote

I recommend you to read this section: https://grapheneos.org/faq#hardware-identifiers
And the playstore doesn't have privileged access

Privateer

if I temporarily login to Playstore, retrieve the paid apps and then logout again

There is no logout from Playstore, is there?

mythodical

Privateer Yes, you can simply logout any time and/or remove the Play Store app entirely.

mythodical

You can read more on the topic here:

What Data Do The Google Dialer and Messages Apps On Android Send to Google?
https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf

And here's an article at Ghacks discussing the findings.

I do not know whether the GrapheneOS' compatibility layer eliminates these potential information leaks.