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GrapheneOS can help you retake your privacy, right now. - Veronica Explains (peertube.wtf)

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[–] Delascas@feddit.uk 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The loss of most banking apps and Google Wallet (tap and pay). For me, those are the killer features you lose. And the reason I gave up on custom ROM's on a FairPhone 3+ after many years.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I dunno if this is helpful or not but on mine I went to Settings > Apps, clicked on my banking app and then turned on "Exploit protection compatibility mode" and that got it working for me. Probably depends on the bank but might be worth a try!

[–] Shrumpf@feddit.org 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think "most banking apps" depends on your location. I never had any problems with them.

Yeah Google Wallet not working is annoying, but for me it's a good tradeoff.

[–] Delascas@feddit.uk 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's not a location thing . . it's a per-banking app thing. And specifically it's a "does your banking app use Google Play integrity API" thing. On LineageOS running on my FairPhone 3 . . my banking apps all worked . . . until the day they didn't. Here is a table reporting the current state of banking app comparability around the world . . but the next update from any specific bank could (and in my case did) break it -

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/#international-banking-apps

PS. In the UK I did actually find an alternative to Google Wallet. . . Curve Pay. Not open source, but not dependent on Play Services. And enabled tap and pay on LineageOS.

https://www.curve.com/

[–] grey_maniac@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

What made you not use the web for your banking? Is the app 100% required? I use the web interface (forcing desktop version) for mine on graphene with no issues.

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Can't you do a separate profile on graphene and enable Google Play services there? Or am I misremembering?

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

google play integrity works at a different level. it checks if you are running a google-approved, "sealed" operating system

[–] greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

Ohhhh, thanks for clarifying that for me.

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

All my banking apps work fine on Graphene. AFAIK there is only a very, very short list of apps which don't work on Graphene.

[–] Delascas@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago

There is a website that maintains the list: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/