Subj : freedom phone
To   : Ogg
From : Arelor
Date : Fri Jul 16 2021 03:41:17

  Re: freedom phone
  By: Ogg to Arelor on Thu Jul 15 2021 08:52 pm

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Thursday 15.07.21 - 08:36, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
 > 
 >  >>  https://freedomphone.com/
 > 
 >  A> I am still waiting for any of these things to hit really strong.
 > 
 >  A> The problem is that for this to happen there needs to stop
 >  A> being social pressure for using the Big Tech infected
 >  A> phones. Try surviving with no iOS or Android in Spain and
 >  A> you are mostly left without Internet Banking at all, among
 >  A> other things. At the rate they are closing offices, I'd
 >  A> rather say without Banking _at all_.
 > 
 > There is more info emerging about the freedomphone.  Apparently
 > it's a de-Googled Android.   So.. wouldn't bankking still work
 > in Spain?

You never know.

If it is a de-googled android you lose access to a lot of functions Android
programs expect to be present, such as access to GCM (a Google controlled
platform for delivering communication and notification). Current banking apps
here have a tendency to check if you are running a regular Android and halt if
you don't either because some function they are designed around is not
available, or because they regard non regular Androids as hacked/cracked phone
systems and thus considered insecure as per the bank's policies.

There are tricks to make a de-googled phone look like a Googled one, but they
are very hacky and they are not a long term fix.

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