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

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks for the input, i realise it's been a while since I checked this! ÖBB Scotty, ÖBB Tickets (could forgo this one) and SBB mobile. I also need Digitales Amt (official government app for things like signing contracts without printing them, ordering your election materials to a different address than usual, checking your medical info etc). Do you happen to know whether that would work?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don't know and sadly my Pixel got stolen recently, but you can see if Offi or Transportr meet your needs, they're available on fdroid.

I guess I have bad news for you regarding the government app: https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/253-compatibility-for-austria-e-government-app

Anyway depending on your threat model keeping a normiephone as a decoy and mainlining something like graphene os can be a good opsec decision.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice, thanks for the tip! Also thanks for going through the trouble of finding out for me, I appreciate it! I'm unfortunately in one of the regions where it's specifically not available. But the second phone thing might be an option. That, or just a compatibility layer with regular old android after all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Well you can use Calyx instead, which supports microG instead of Graphene, at the expense of somewhat lower security level. Or wait until sandboxes google services gets patched accordingly.