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1. rkager+DA[view] [source] 2025-08-25 21:32:54
>>kotaKa+(OP)
I've grown increasingly hateful towards both my Android and iOS devices over the last decade. The platforms themselves are increasingly user-hostile, and their appstores are crammed full of shitty, privacy-invading, telemetry-hoovering, dopamine-triggering, ad-filled, lipstick-covered apps that are often garbage compared to the pioneering days of mobile. I miss the days of my old Palm Pilot.

Is anyone working on fixing this? We can do so much better.

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2. miloig+aC[view] [source] 2025-08-25 21:42:44
>>rkager+DA
GrapheneOS + F-Droid is a joy to use, for me. I'm kinda shocked when I use anyone else's phone, now.

If they start selling their own devices, I will buy one and (assuming it turns out how I hope it will) recommend it strongly.

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3. petral+vD[view] [source] 2025-08-25 21:50:19
>>miloig+aC
How do you access banking and other sensitive apps? If the answer is, you don't, well, you can see how that's a non starter for the vast majority of people.
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4. miloig+9G[view] [source] 2025-08-25 22:03:07
>>petral+vD
My banking app works fine on GrapheneOS. There is a crowd-sourced list here with current status for many of them: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
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5. kelnos+k21[view] [source] 2025-08-26 00:55:39
>>miloig+9G
This is a good start! I think we need something like a ProtonDB for this sort of thing, but that covers all apps, not just banking apps.

I do see five banking apps I use listed there as working, which is great. But -- and maybe I'm being unnecessarily overly worried about this -- what about the future? What if I've been using Graphene for a year or two, and one of the ones that's critical for me changes how they operate, and Graphene no longer passes muster as a platform it will run on. I'm not afraid of this happening at all running Google's stock OS image, but once I do my own thing, I get to keep the pieces when it breaks.

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