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We should be able to install any OS that we want on our phones.
This is precisely one of the perks of rooting. Unless you mean as a right, without needing to root? I'd disagree (from a corporate/warranty perspective), but I'll bite
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Before smartphones some banks used a hardware token to authenticate web transactions, but now that is being moved to (non rooted) smartphones.
I was given a hardware device by my bank to do my online banking. If they want to move to smartphones I expect them to provide me one of those as well.
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Sadly device attestation has all but destroyed installing other OS. I couldn't use government or banking apps back in my old phone with LineageOS.
In my experience, most banking apps are horrible and not worth using over accessing the bank's browser version.
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The reddit thread makes it pretty clear that KDE Connect installed through third party sources are what's getting uninstalled. Nobody with it installed from the play store mention it being removed, and though some users that got it from F-Droud mention it still being installed, there are several possible explanations for that. Like me, it wasn't removed on my phone but it turns out I disabled PlayProtect at some poin…
Even if it is like you state, link directly there, to the exact posts that prove this and not in an intermediate site. HN is supposed to keep a higher post standard
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No I'm not. Does that mean I might as well cc the NSA to all my emails? Your comment is basically "is it perfect? No? Then it's not better".
I’m saying that, if people who use it aren’t careful, they could end up like the university kid. There was a university that received a bomb threat over Tor. They found one student who used Tor on the network at around the right time, and because he was the only Tor user, he’s in jail for a very, very long time. That kid was at Harvard, his persuer the FBI. If you are going to use GrapheneOS, don’t be naive and think…
It actually put a little fear in me because I look around and not a lot of internet users in my small hell hole of an open prison I call home and i was like "dude. You're like a alert beacon screaming here is a tor user, check him out".
I was using tor at the time and that is the last day I used it because this use case fit me somewhat. Not for sending bomb threats but because the nature of surveillance, I am a target of the government so any outlier gets flagged pretty hard.
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As I said, for many banks, in order to log in to the bank's website on a laptop, you need to receive a 2FA code sent through the bank’s app on an Android phone.
I’ve found that many times when a service says this the system will work with any OTP program. They just don’t tell you specifically. Maybe they don’t know, think it’ll confuse, and/or prefer you didn’t.
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My phone forces me to reject "Play Protect" every single time I want to install an app. If I have to explicitly reject it more than once, it is obviously malware. Once is already arguable.
The only acceptable phone for me has been a Pixel phone, with GrapheneOS installed. I do wish the permission to install/uninstall were separated for something like this (I may be naive). I have everything installed to a work profile in Android (using the Shelter app). I can globally pause all work-profile apps. It's not the best, because when unpaused I'm not getting some notifications. I need to figure that out.
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Non crap link http://farside.link/twitter.com/albertvaka/status/1712954968...
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The only acceptable phone for me has been a Pixel phone, with GrapheneOS installed. I do wish the permission to install/uninstall were separated for something like this (I may be naive). I have everything installed to a work profile in Android (using the Shelter app). I can globally pause all work-profile apps. It's not the best, because when unpaused I'm not getting some notifications. I need to figure that out.
Graphene is not acceptable either, since it requires putting trust in someone who does not exibit enough stability or rationality to justify that kind of trust. I mean it's only the keys to your whole life, no big.