Whether you install a custom ROM or not:
Don’t use Google.
Correct. Lineage OS only, F-Droid only. Nothing G-related at all whatsoever. No need.
Fuck your Play Integrity. Fortunately I use no app that needs that shit.
There is nothing to do with me about that. Fuck yourself, bro!
He was talking to Google, not you
He said “your”.
Does Google Play integrity belong to you?
No, that’s why I wonder why he is messing with me.
It’s poorly worded, but a plausible interpretation is “The play integrity you’re talking about can go fuck itself.”
Lol. Classic internet discourse above… where the fuck did this conversation end up.
Lol I thought OP was making a joke. I have no idea how they could think I meant them
The only thing that you need play integrity for is banking apps.
I recommend buying a 50$ smartphone solely for banking and leaving it at home.Maybe a silly question, but can you not do it in a web browser? It’s what I’ve been doing.
Different countries have different systems. In Sweden, our “banking app” is not really for doing bank tasks, it’s everywhere in society as a 2FA app. Buying a bus ticket, booking a medical appointment, paying bills, logging in to various government and non-government web sites, signing a contract, etc. They all use the banking 2FA app. It’s really really difficult to have a normal life without this app.
It does not require Play Integrity though… yet.
True. I was more talking about “banking apps” being more than seeing the balance of my accounts in a web browser instead of using their app. BankID is used for much more than that.
This also works in abrowser. At least in Finland.
Then we have different systems. How do you prove that you are you online in Finland? Do you use usernames+passwords or some 2FA ID system?
The system works through a series of redirects. Say if I have to prove my identity to some government website, it offers different authentication methods, one of which is my bank. I 2F authenticate with my bank the way we agreed, then it redirects me back to the originating site.
Different banks offer different systems for 2FA. Most also offer an app. Google services are not always required. If you don’t want to use an app, there are ways; in addition to username/password, usually a SMS for strong auth, or some code from a database that I have for weak auth.
No app, OS-independent.
If my bank forced my to use an app that only works with google services, I’d change banks. As I did, actually.
How exactly do you 2FA with the bank without the bank’s 2FA app?
Source, from Finland.
Unfortunately, at least in my country, it’s getting harder and harder to do banking through a plain old webbrowser. Apps are being pushed hard and afaik all of them use the Google Lock-In API in their Android app. Alternatively I could switch to iPhone, but having had the displeasure of experiencing their crappy hardware and even worse service I’d rather cut my balls off than ever dealing with Apple again.
Many banks nowadays at least try hard to push you to use some kind of app method to verify transactions, in place of other TAN methods. Though my main bank still lets me use an old-fashioned chip-TAN device, not all banks would do that.
I’m on Graphene OS, and luckily all my other banking apps work on there. I’ve got them isolated in another user profile, seperated from my daily use apps, so only the banking profile gets Google Play services enabled.
The app is so much more convenient, but it’s something I’m wiling to sacrifice to avoid Google.
And that’s what we need more of, not appification.
The app is so much more convenient, but it’s something I’m wiling to sacrifice to avoid Google.
Not only banking. I cannot commute to work without it. The most convenient way of commuting is an app Mälardalstrafik, and it will not even show search results without play integrity.
I wish we could still adjust everything as easily as it once used to be. I just want access to the entire OS. I understand why they limit it. But they should leave an option for users to access it. I bought a Poco (Xiaomi) earlier this year and it absolutely horrible. The quick settings menu and the notification shade are separated and there’s no way to have them in one view. It also does this thing where it will wipe anything you don’t use for 2 seconds in an effort to conserve energy and memory. But you’re constantly restarting apps that way and using more energy while making it slow to use. Not to mention you can’t fill in forms while switching between apps. I also don’t understand why Google neutered the recents screen ( I know it’s been like this for around 10yrs). What’s the point of the recents screen if you can’t lock anything in it and you can only see four apps in it. And the horizontal not even stacked view is annoying as hell.
