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I have my respect for GrapheneOS for addressing the Play Integrity API issue.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Well. I was literally considering getting a pixel fold in the next few days to give grapheneOS a try. I guess I won't now? What other good options are there for a (mostly) casual who wanted minimal fiddling and maximum privacy? Just switching back to iPhone?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I doubt iPhone is better, and it's marketing instead. Or it's a matter of time before they wanna go the data mining road. You can also get a fairphone and install a custom ROM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Right, but not Graphene, though, right? The whole draw of Graphene is that it's relatively easy and android-feature complete, no?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

No idea tbh. I edited my message to fix my mistake too

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, apple is always teetering on that fence where on the one side, they're a Corpo and want to sell your data, but on the other side their whole draw and the logic behind being a walled garden is the privacy aspect for their users. If they drop the privacy draw, then why would some users want to stay in a walled garden

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Only a few apps enforce Play Integrity so it is still the best option for a casual user. Cash App enforcing it is my biggest hurdle.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Is there a master list of apps that do this, I wonder?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's nothing wrong with Graphene. I've been using it for months now on my Pixel 7.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the post...? It seems like Google is starting to fuck with app access, unless I'm misunderstanding?

[–] Persen 1 points 3 months ago

They didn't change anything. Banking apps rely on play integrity to check if the device is secure (not bootloader unlocked/rooted). Google abuses this, so grapheneos devices also don't get the support.