cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1319937/grapheneos-says-revolut-is-blocking-its-users-over-google-play-checks
Via @GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social on Mastodon.
This is probably something you have to get used to when using Graphene unfortunately. Just pack up and leave, there are tons of banks where the app works fine.
There are also tons of banks that let you bank through a web browser, banking apps are hardly critical if you have a sane bank
They just lost a customer. This was on my list of apps to use but not if they are this dumb
I use it un graphene and had 0 problems this far.
As shit as it is there is a every growing list of things you had better just be prepared to not interface with on your phone if you are going to run a Android phone without Play Services installed.
Flip side to that is once I switched my Pixel to GrapheneOS without having access to things that only work right with Play Services the phone became way less interesting outside of phone, text, casual web browsing, and photos. Which is probably a good thing.
I can whole heartedly agree. Its almost like when you take the out the scientifically crafted environments that are designed to suck your soul and wallet out of the equation that your relationship with technology just gets better.
If you are interested, here is the book that taught them all how to do it:
https://www.nirandfar.com/hooked/
Here is the book the same author wrote when he realised his kids were getting addicted to devices:
that’s hilarious, thanks for sharing!
But why would Revolut do something like that? They will lose customers and it’s not just in spite, I’d assume.
Edit: loose->lose, customers
Terribly sorry, I try not to be a pedant about these things, but this is major pet peeve of mine. Up there with people saying “anywho”
It’s “lose”.
Loose describes the screw I have
Lose is what I do with my mind on the daily
I love you anyway, have a great day
Anywhere exists, anyhow exists.
Why the discrimination against anywho and anywhy??
Who can do it? Anywho can do it? Why can they do it? Anywhy they can do it?
NGL, I’m racist against “anywho” because my sister says it and she’s super annoying. Is it unfair? Yes. Will I change? Never
alright boys, we have a mission to take out SirSamuel’s sister so we can use “anywho” again.
I like anywho. It’s whimsical
Thanks, learning never hurts.
Mine is “hence why,” I become irrationally irritated when I see it, but try to harbor no malice towards people I see using it.
Irregardless, we all have our peeves and foibles
I don’t understand either. What benefit do they have from blocking it (or what disadvantage do they have from not blocking)? There has to be some reason, no?
More like: Google gave developers an automatic “checkbox” tick way to block grapheneos users and everyone that doesn’t have a goggle play licensed firmware
Assholes
If you’re in the UK then nationwide and monzo bank apps are confirmed to work
I switched away from Ally bank for similar reasons, on my lineage’d pixel 5 with gapps, their app would always fail the login the first time then succeed the second time for no reason.
Then the bank I switched to, greenfi (coastal community bank) completely blocked login unless I had play protect (in Google play) enabled, which allows Google to uninstall any app from your phone without asking if they decide it’s a “security risk” or whatever - I can totally imaging them deciding that ReVanced / morphie / patched apps that block their ads to be a “security issue”. Luckily greenfi was more understanding and they did something that allowed me to log in again.
Guess I’ll just never use their shitty service: Sucks to suck.
Thankfully I can still use the app, it seems they are rolling out these changes perhaps across test regions.
Wait, Revolut was broken on Graphene OS a year ago, then they fixed it and now they blocked it again? WTF?
well, I have no idea what a Revolut is (ah, a UK based bank? odd name), but I mean, they still could not stop web-based banking, right?
Not sure about them, but some banks have more features on the phone app than on the web. Bloody annoying.
Believe this started last year sometime, i packed my shit and left.
I always like the random GrapheneOS/Daniel Micay populism Twitter posts with 0 in depth proof and just throwing around that … is bad.
Don’t get me wrong they have a point that hardware attestation is a shitshow. But statements like “It includes a bunch of closed source third party libraries with privacy, security and compatibility issues. Several of these libraries supposedly exist to protect security but in fact create serious security weaknesses.” with 0 information what these libraries and issues are, are just unfounded accusations.
