Paying without Google: New consortium wants to remove custom ROM hurdles
cross-posted from: https://lemmings.world/post/42484977
Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
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Graphene doesn't say it's not open source. Graphene critizes that the manufacturer decides what operating system the user may use.
How do you get banks to participate? Those things can only happen if regulators make everyone do it.
Yep, we need EU to start acting on this. Establish alternative infrastructure and force companies to support custom ROMs.
lol. Nothing is going to happen, and people will still be surprised about it.
Can we add that access to banking apps should not be limited in the same way either. I've got two credit cards that can only be managed on android play store apps (plus im guessing iOS) since they took away their websites which worked perfectly fine and allowed anyone to get access at a library at a bare minimum (Virgin - fuck you). Then, one app (HSBC UK - fuck you even more!) who won't let you use any unknown apps that overlay others - so it won't work without me removing my fucking lawnchair launcher. That's right, not disabling it, not giving me the option to "take the risk", I have to uninstall it! I trust lawnchair hundred times more than your unnecessarily large sized app with random unnecessary permissions.
I'm not using one card so it just sits as a cost to them and looks good on my credit. The other I'm a bit stuck as used it to get a cheap loan but it'll be a while before I want to pay it off so switched on paper statements and uninstalled the app. I'll never use their other products though as a result...