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Revolut, McDonald's, and Authy have banned the use of GrapheneOS. (grapheneos.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by Sunny@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/15995282

Real unfortunate news for GrapheneOS users as Revolut has decided to ban the use of 'non-google' approved OSes. This is currently being posted about and updated by GrahpeneOS over at Bluesky for those who want to follow it more closely.

Edit: had to change the title, originally it said Uber too but I cannot find back to the source of ether that's true or not..

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 85 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Just to be clear, they banned all custom roms, not only graphene.

[–] 4lan@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's crazy how they can just do illegal things because they have so much money...

Do I own my phone or not??

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Most ROMs like LineageOS and CalyxOS drastically weaken the security of Android, so that would actually make sense. GrapheneOS has far better security than AOSP, the Stock Pixel OS, or basically every other version of Android that you would find pre-loaded on a device. https://grapheneos.org/features#exploit-protection

[–] far_university190@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Most ROMs like LineageOS and CalyxOS drastically weaken the security of Android

Source?

[–] theroff@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Graphene shills have been banging on this point for donkey's ages. Reality is that many people use phones that are out of OEM support and many OEM ROMs are bundled with questionable software (Oppo, Samsung etc.) There are some decent criticisms to be made about LineageOS, but others to be made about Grapheme, like its Google-suggestive configurations, which is quite bad for security and privacy. Graphene says this is all optional and not part of the OS, but doesn't include any equivalent F-Droid installer.

[–] DoeJohn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah. As much as I love GrapheneOS and all the security work, sometimes I feel like their "ideal" setup is to just install GrapheneOS on the latest Pixel phone and use only the 5 or so built in apps, as everything else is insecure, brings additional code baggage and can introduce flaws. I don't think anyone can live like that.