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Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm considering switching too, I'm tired of feeling helpless.

Out of curiosity, have you had a lot of encounters with apps that won't run because of play integrity? If so, have you managed to work around them in any way?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    My banking app. It has been years since I last checked if it works, maybe it works now but I don't care. I just use the browser to do my banking.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I have a little rinky dink credit union that only has a few locations locally, I got there's to work. I even got cash app (the most problematic) to work, zelle works through my bank app, venmo works, everything works. You may have to do a setting workaround for your app that allows Google to be unsandboxed for that app only, or at least that is my understanding of what it's doing.

    If I remember right, it was this setting that finally made cash app work, I'm pretty sure my banking app just worked, but if I remember right, that hasn't always been the case.

    @PrejudicedKettle@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I haven't tried Graphene, but I think I did get my banking app working on my backup phone running EvolutionX or something. I forgot the name of the ROM. 3-4 years ago when it was my main phone running Lineage, the banking app didn't work and then they messed up the stock ROM with Android 12, I just straight up gave up on Android and moved to iOS. Now Graphene is starting to sound better by the day, but I've since started using a banking app that outright blocks GrapheneOS -.- Suppose there's no way to get around having two phones if I want privacy AND support for all the apps I use.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    you can install sandboxed play services for those apps. i created a separate user profile that has it installed for the apps that need it. By creating a separate profile, you isolate all the apps installed on that profile and they don't have access to the data on your main profile

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    oh wow, that's a really handy feature, I'm feeling a lot more confident that I should switch, now. Thanks!!

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    it's super simple to install. the hardest thing for you will be to get used to go through more setps to do normal tasks due to the multiple profiles you can create. i recomment you create a profile for banking, one for social stuff, one for google stuff and one for web browsing. the more you isolate each task, the more control you have over your data

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