Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

  • @bearboiblake@pawb.social
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    121 days ago

    GrapheneOS is pretty good, as a more private alternative to Android, though the downside is that it’s only available for Pixel phones. I bought a used one on ebay.

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      21 days ago

      I wonder if Square would still work, for example? I haven’t flashed open source ROMs on my phone since like 2012.

      Honestly though, I just consider the phone a lost cause when it comes to privacy & use it accordingly. Uncle Googs is always watching, even when the damn thing is turned off.

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        21 days ago

        the thing about degoogled OS is lack of SafetyNet support and it is important for banking apps.

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              121 days ago

              The bank doesn’t need to manually support GrapheneOS, the app just needs to behave appropriately - which, as you can see from that list, the overwhelming majority of them do.

              If my bank stops supporting it, then I will move banks. But I doubt it will ever really become an issue.

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                121 days ago

                many countries are not supported like South Africa, Uruguay, Paraguay, Latvia, Brunei etc. that is why degoogled OS support for banking apps are patchy and I don’t think normies are bother to install it.

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                  120 days ago

                  you’re misinterpreting that list, it is not exhaustive - it’s a list of banking apps which someone has tried and updated the list. the lack of a specific country or bank on that list doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, it means nobody has tested it, or nobody has added it to the list, at least

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          21 days ago

          Thx, that’s exactly my concern as I remember it being an issue when I was flashing ROMs in the past.