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‘Google Is a Monopolist,’ Judge Rules in Landmark Antitrust Case (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 31 points 2 years ago* (22 children)

!degoogle@lemmy.ml

I can't root my Android phone right now to install something like LineageOS, but yesterday, I sat down, installed ADB, and got rid of a mountain of unnecessary crap that comes packaged with Android and which is installed as a "system package" so you're not allowed to uninstall it normally (e.g. Gmail).

It's extremely easy.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (21 children)

    Unlocking bootloader/flashing isn't so easy for most people. I root every device I get, but for normal users this process isn't easy. Also some manufacturers aren't so friendly towards people unlocking bootloaders. I remember Sony lowering camera quality when you unlocked/installed Cyanogenmod back in Z2 times, or more recently Asus preventing you from unlocking completely.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (18 children)

    Eupean banking apps refuse to launch on unlocked phones. And you need said banking apps as mandatory 2fa to log into your online banking system.

    So in EU you gotta choose between banking and rooting.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Don't throw in all of europe into one pot. The banks in my country still sell separate PIN machines for 2FA, which work great.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Oh right, I completely forgot about the separate device that you have to plug into your computer and then also plug your card into the deviceand then enter your pin. It's almost as convenient as having the phone app!

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Well that sarcasm definitely backfired mate. The device I have is a QR Code scanner that works like a phone, with the important distinction that I can do with my actual phone what I damn well please.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    You are talking about the id card reader, not independent 2FA devices that generate codes. Also, in some countries you can get a SIM card with special certificates that can be used for identification and document signing, they work on virtually any modern phone. I think that feature uses the SMS protocol underneath, but I couldn't find the confirmation.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Denylist in magisk works for me in eu

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Didn't work for me on a Samsung S6 or S10. Maybe I will try again some day but for now it's not worth the risk of never being able to go back, thanks to the Samsung physical one-time fuse.

    My next phone should be a Pixel with Graphene...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Depends on the bank. Mine (BoursoBank) works on a rooted Lineage phone. I only had to add it to Magisk's exclusion list.

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  • [+] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    The apps my bank uses run perfectly well on graphene

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    Which is only available for a limited set of devices, does not have root, locks the bootloader again and is probably professional enough to get banks to approve their signing key. For those reasons it is nor a viable solution for everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Yeah, the bootloader really seems like a challenge. ADB fortunately is extremely easy, especially if you use a tool like App Manager from F-Droid to correspond package names to specific applications.

    Just adb shell when your phone is in developer mode and you hook up to your computer via USB, then pm uninstall --user 0 packagename.

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    • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    If I am looking it up correctly, judge Amit Mehta was appointed by Obama (who had ties with Google), and still ruled google a Monopoly.

    I just like stuff like this as it shows a judge can put bias aside in a ruling at least once, supposedly.

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Not really. It could be simply that in an effort to not appear biased he over corrected and ruled more harshly against Google.

    Now I'm not saying that this is what happened here, but it's just another facet of why it's important to avoid bias entirely, not simply trust that someone can rise above them.

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    • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Lina Khan should be the next attorney general.

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