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1119 points pattyj | 3 comments | 17 Sep 25 11:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.501s | source
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drnick1 ◴[17 Sep 25 20:49 UTC] No.45281245[source]▶
You couldn't pay me to go back to using anything made by Apple or Google. I use a GrapheneOS Pixel and my self-hosted "cloud" with Nextcloud, HomeAssitant, and my own email server and the control and performance are unrivaled by any of the Big Tech crapware. I could start self-hosting an AI chatbot I suppose, but these do not seem to have reached the point of enshiffication yet as relatively new services.
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cons0le ◴[17 Sep 25 21:11 UTC] No.45281450[source]▶
I may be out of the loop, but can't google just kill GrapheneOS anytime it wants? I never tried it out because I assumed that in the near future it won't be compatible with banking and messaging apps. Do they have a long term plan to exist in 5-10 years?
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1. sfRattan ◴[17 Sep 25 21:25 UTC] No.45281567[source]▶
My banking app didn't work for a while on Graphene OS, but now it does again. In the interim I was able to use the bank's mobile website in a pinch. Password manager apps (I've tried Bitwarden and KeePassDX) integrate with the hardened Vanadium browser and made signing in a breeze. I lost immediate transaction notifications, but it was at least tolerable.

I suspect banks won't ever be able to take their web portals down and go app-only, though Google is now trying to ram through technologies in the Chrome browser to "verify the computing platform" that will have a similar effect to the Google Play "integrity" checks for apps.

Enduring solutions to these vendor lock-in efforts must ultimately be legislative.

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2. cheesecompiler ◴[17 Sep 25 21:29 UTC] No.45281608[source]▶
The walls of the Google garden have been slowly going up.
3. mrheosuper ◴[18 Sep 25 07:02 UTC] No.45286451[source]▶
>I suspect banks won't ever be able to take their web portals down and go app-only

Nowaday all my interaction with online bank is through their app.