Can confirm I am seeing the same thing

Left a 1 star review.

I will be emailing my MPP about this. Publicly funded apps should not be allowed to do these things.

@avidamoeba funny. if they hadn't said anything I bet noone would have cared. But since they DO CARE about dev. ops enabled, that says to me, what are they concerned about? Is there a way I can monkey with my presto app data and ride for free?

Metrolinx's reply to someone's play store comment about this restriction:

Thank you for taking the time to write in, and we apologize for any inconvenience. This restriction was introduced to help protect customer accounts and personal data, as certain device settings can increase security risks. We are revisiting this based on feedback and appreciate you sharing your experience.

Hopefully they backtrack on this decision as fast as Ford and the gravy plane.

Meanwhile, with Google's upcoming restrictions on 'sideloading' (I.E. installing apps that haven't registered with Google, including paying them a fee and providing your government ID: see more at https://keepandroidopen.org/), soon the only way for users running Android to install apps that Big Brother Google hasn't approved will be... enabling Developer Mode.

Enabling Developer Mode of course requires a 24-hour waiting period, so you can't just turn it off real quick to use this app and then back on, either. (EDIT: Apparently the 24-hour waiting period only applies to the first time enabling developer mode. The rest of my concerns stand, though.)

If apps refusing to run in developer mode is or becomes a widespread thing...well, it ain't good. And making it so that important publicly funded apps can't run in developer mode would be an easy thing for Google to lobby for...

Fuck you Presto whatever the fuck you are.

This right here is the beginning of the end for Android. It shouldn't be possible to limit apps because of Developer Mode in the first place. Google wants to go walled garden, like Apple. Well, then, I'll just go Apple in the first place; they have the better ecosystem. I was with Android for the openness.

You are using your phone as if you own it, this is not allowed

This is a little thing I like to call Security by Incompetence

Uhm, why can this random app figure that out?

What is this PRESTO app? Anything important?

If an app forces me to choose between being able to use dev mode or using the app, chances are the app will lose.

lame as fuck

they can suck my left nutsack before I let them decide how I use my fucking device.

Can't wait till I decide which linux/graphene os capable phone I want to use, I'm jumping ship this year 100%, fuck digital feudalism.

I wonder if I could bypass this by cloning it in my work profile

I just discovered my bank app requires me to have play protect enabled, which allows Google to uninstall any app they deem "harmful" at any time and block it's installation with no bypass except disabling play protect. I left my last bank because of device integrity / safety net requirements.