> This is alpha-grade software and not yet ready for production use. Do not use if you don't know what you're doing.
Personally I'd also be concerned that Google's bot detection code might mark accounts that use microg as suspicious (as they're going to behave differently than phones using the official software) which could increase the risk of Google banning the account.
So what?
As a Chinese the only way for me to connect to Google is through a proxy, and I'm a Firefox user with some privacy settings enabled.
Few months ago I started to notice that Google is keep logging me out of their services, and I had to go through the entire authentication process to log back into my accounts in order to check my emails and do some searches without having be spammed by that capthshitTM of theirs etc, then after few days I'm been logged out again.
Eventually, I got tired of this, and decided "Hey, at least duckduckgo.com won't try to give troubles as long as you use their service normally", so I quickly developed this new habit of not to use google.com. Now I only use YouTube, Gmail, Play Store and sometime the backup service (Google Drive or maybe Photo, I don't care) on my Android phone.
If Google wants to ban all microG users, I'd say that's Great! It was fun Google, thank you for the service.
Plus, can Google actually block a microG user ethically? Using microG isn't hacking or abusing Google service, and "suspicious" is not enough for an account to be blocked, at least permanently.
What'd be ethical? Google can permanently ban accounts for any reason and they do.
"If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck"
Let's not pretend that this is a new problem caused by AI (whatever that is).
But as I understand it, it is really risky if you host all your online assets in one company. So if you go back around on the topic, yeah, that 30% fee is probably really too much for company might not want to serve you.