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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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[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

GrapheneOS is Android.

[–] Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Huh TIL, thanks! So would apps usually work, just like on regular android? Except the aforementioned, of course.

[–] granolabar@kbin.melroy.org 8 points 2 weeks ago

Most EVERYTHING works unless your app dev is PoS like these guys.

Another alternative is MicroG which might work better in light of recent development.

How zealous are you on dumping google?

[–] killingspark@feddit.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

Well yes and no. The point is to stop using Google. And that entails quite a few things you might expect a phone to do

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can take a look at calyxOS, it's what I use. Android but with all Google telemetry ripped out. It's not as resistant as graphene against a govt adversary, but for privacy, better battery (bc google stuff isn't constantly running) and still being able to use everything, it works great.