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>>joseph+(OP)
This story with restricting users is a similar one to Manifest V3 in Chromium.

But we don't have anything like FF as an alternative to go from Android. Especially considering banks require "certified OS".

>>zx8080+E7
What if we collectively decide to use the web alternatives for banking? We lose some convinience since they are generally desktop oriented, but they don't check who signed my kernel

>>yonata+F8
Many banks are slowly phasing out their websites to go app only.

>>PeterS+4b
Which ones?

>>derwik+1d
every single Brazilian bank for instance

>>kikoki+me
Brazil is screwed anyway from what I heard about WhatsApp being mandatory for daily life ?

>>BlueTe+nq
Even though I very much dislike WhatsApp, it does not require having full control over "your" device, and does not make itself an arbiter of what you can or cannot install on "your" hardware.

I can't see them changing this in the foreseeable future, major parts of their userbase run the cheapest phones one can buy, and they're much more interested in as much data as possible, so near 100% device coverage has to be important for them.

>>homebr+tt
Last time I tried to use WhatsApp (in 2024), it was also basically unusable, because after I gave it the barest amount of information during installation (using its own dialog screens !), (in particular not willing to share my contacts), it regularly locked me out (IIRC as not a 'real' user).