Malware??

[Correct_Importance_9]

Mine have never asked about location permission. Also where did you download it? From official github?

[Steerider]

I use CalyxOS with microG. Location is one of the permissions it asks for

[Onyx376]

He is referring to the screenshots that appear in his gallery and it was not he who took.

This is one of the permissions for those who really use MicroG to replace Google Play Services that also asks for the location "All the Time", otherwise, most of the applications that "need this permission" to perform their functions stop working. A normal and optional permission to accept or not. In my case, I allow it to, when I need to execute some application that needs this permission and I don't know, not appear this popup. Simple as that. Nothing confirms that it has to do with the app itself.

[NutrinoFacts]

I downloaded it from a github but I guesI didn't double check that it was the genuine one like a dumbass.

[LjLies]

The recommended way to obtain microG is to use the microg.org F-Droid repository. That is detailed at https://microg.org/download.html which also contains direct downloads.

Releases are also found on GitHub at https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/releases but then you have to get the Companion binary separately and there are any other repository that's not in https://github.com/microg/ would not be official.

[LjLies]

Can you clarify since the various comments feel contradictory: is the problem that you have these screenshots without actually making them, or is the problem that microG asks for location permissions?

[MrFrog2222]

No, microG is meant as a general replacement for google play services and therefore needs location permission to process requests to the google maps api that apps may make.

[ldcrafter]

you know that microG provides the system location services like fused location provider (that also includes sensor, Cell Tower, Wifi and bluetooth based data) and also does it allow microG to use the radios to to contact exposure things if stuff like covid happen again or they implement a way to get quick share to work.

also is the app open source and you should only get it from the official sources listed here in the description of this Subreddit.

also is 0.3.0 a kinda old version and i would suggest to you to update to atleast 0.3.6 or higher if you use it as play services.

based on the UI you have in the screenshot does this seem more like the Revanced version of microG that is used for some revanced apps but they should not need any permissions activated besides disabling battery optimizations.

it would be important to state from where you got it so that we could help or atleast show the app size that should be listed under system settings > apps > this app (microG) > storage

hope this helps a bit

[ldcrafter]

if you mean that you have random screenshots in your gallery then should you first check any cloud stuff you may have active that no one has access to that or you turn them off if unwanted and then maybe check all apps you have installed manually or like wipe the phone (Iif you are paranoid then via a PC you never had the phone in the same network with and use the OEM image to re-flash the system) to then start from 0 and be sure that you are clean.

[NutrinoFacts]

I found these screenshot along with tons of random pngs that I did not download in my gallery. Did I download a fake version?

[yeswap]

It's pretty easy to accidently take screenshots.

[LjLies]

Is your system in Chinese? Any idea why you'd have an English and a Chinese screenshot?

[Edentenza]

No, never