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Arno Welzel wrote on Thu, 20 Jun 2024 17:59:35 +0200 :

> No. It can only use Firebase. Firebase is not "go online" but a
> framework for authentication and using cloud storage:
> 
> <https://firebase.google.com/>

I am thoroughly confused what "Firebase" truly means, since it seems to be
one of those nice marketing words that Google marketing uses for too-many
things. So I think there are MULTIPLE things that Google calls "Firebase".

If you turn on Developer options, then Firebase will be an option in your
Android settings which contains a horrific amount of privacy-related things
about you such as every contact you interacted with and every location you
ever searched for in Google maps and every app you've used and when.

Android 13 Galaxy: 
Settings > Google (Google Services) > Firebase App Indexing 

Here is an example in Firebase App Indexing of all your map searches.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/qR8zr72r/appindex01.jpg> All your Maps searches

But the Firebase App Index contains a LOT more very private information.
 <https://i.postimg.cc/nhCCVxmB/mapsloctrack03.jpg> 

For example, Firebase App Index contains a listing of every contact you've
interacted with and exactly when and for how long you interacted with them.

In that Firebase App Indexing loation is a horrifically scary collection of
extremely private information that wouldn't be so bad if it didn't
constantly "send update_index" to somewhere about once a month or so.
<https://i.postimg.cc/QtfJ59LP/firebase02.jpg> Firebase indexed app data

Where (or who) is that somewhere, I don't know, and every time I asked,
people tell me they never heard of this Firebase - and yet it exists.

In summary, I think the Google "Firebase" you looked up may not be the same
Google Services "Firebase App Indexing" that is on my phone and which
contains extremely private data which is uploaded periodically to somewhere
by an unknown-to-me process.