ExLisper comments on Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

100% agree that regulatory push is needed. Everything uses an app now and it's not possible to force all the different developers to support deGoogled devices just by user pressure. There's simply not enough of us. EU has to treat it as strategic issue for their US tech sovereignty and start acting.

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[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

Everything uses an app now

Speaking of which, that's an issue in itself. The vast majority of "apps" are basically webviews. And yet I've seen banks deprecate their website in favor of app-only access, which firmly locks them (and us) into the Google and Apple ecosystem, even when the website and the bank UI are one and the same.

I guess they won't learn until there's a major outage. I've had apps installed from Play that refused to start and were unusable for a whole week because Google fucked up something accidentally about the dev's account. If that were to happen to a bank's app they'd understand the issue. Especially if it's one of the banks that are exclusively online, like Revolut.

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[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 point 3 weeks ago

On one hand apps are convenient. It's nice to have my flight info and boarding passes on my phone when traveling. It's nice to confirm my transaction with a finger print instead of writing codes that I get in SMS. It's nice to buy a ticket in my app rather than stand in like to some machine. But it's only nice when it works without tracking and mandatory google accounts. More and more apps are tied to google but since almost everyone is using them the alternatives (like websites) are slowly disappearing.

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