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"Brave relies on Google Play Services. It turns out to be very difficult to run on standard Android builds without using Google Play Services" This is complete nonsense and is a quote from the "Security & Privacy Product Manager at

@brave

". They don't even know why this happens.

7:02 PM · Jun 17, 2019Twitter Web Client

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Meanwhile, Chromium (which Brave forks) runs fine without Play Services and isn't supposed to have any hard dependencies on it. It's only meant to depend on Play Services for features using Google services. They usually check for it being present to avoid a notice. This is a bug.

Daniel Micay

@DanielMicay

Jun 17, 2019

I was looking at Brave's commits and issues to borrow their fix and to submit a good report upstream including the cause to speed up getting it resolved. That's what I did for that past issue a couple years ago, as you can see from the thread. A Google employee did the full fix.

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amusing that they don't seem to know their code nor their values