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There's one group of Android users Google's new sideloading rules won't affect (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

It's easy enough to work around most of it, with web apps. You can even install them to have separate icons. Granted, there are some things that are impossible, like digital ID, but there aren't any that fundamentally affect phone usability, for my personal use.

What's holding me up is work stuff. I get a stipend to have a work phone, so I just use my personal device, but I'm getting a separate device for work soon so I can cut out everything Google/Microsoft on me personal device. Digital control and privacy matters.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    No. You cannot. The digital id I was referring to can be activated only via app, and banking apps are mandatory. You can do web banking paying an additional fee and using sms authentication, but as I said it's an additional fee. Maybe worth paying for, ymmv.

    But the real practical of the digital id is that I will never be (again) fined for driving without a driving license with me because I always have my phone with me. I usually have also my real driving license, but sometimes I leave the wallet home or whatever.

    It's just practical stuff, you can do without, but why should I.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    What banks charge fees for web banking!? That doesn't make a lick of sense, imho... That incentivizes using much-more-expensive in-person banking.

    Also, even if there are some banks that don't have web banking, it's easy enough to switch banks (at least, in the countries I know about). Some people even regularly cycle through institutions to get sign-on bonuses a couple times each year.

    But, yes. It's less convenient to use platforms that respect privacy, and requires some trade-offs.

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