> This is an open-source implementation of the google cloud integration in Android that is necessary for push notifications in virtually all apps, the account mgmt that the Play Store uses and so on.
No, sorry, this is not true at all - MicroG push notification module will talk to Google servers and use their infrastructure to deliver the notifications.
It can't really work any other way - the app backends will request notification delivery from Google servers and you can't really MITM that.
What exactly are you disagreeing with here? You're just saying the same thing a different way. It's open source, it implements google cloud integration, google cloud integration is necessary for push notifications...
No, sorry, this is not true at all - MicroG push notification module will talk to Google servers and use their infrastructure to deliver the notifications.
It can't really work any other way - the app backends will request notification delivery from Google servers and you can't really MITM that.