Comment on Privacy — why should I care
guismo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
One thing i don’t usually see people mentioning is that personal data is money. Money is power. Do you want to give that company more power?
I absolutely do not want to make apple more powerful. With Android i can at least choose a company i dislike less, or even like, and give the power to then. Then i can even remove Google from the phone and not give them power. It may not be easy but it’s in the license of Android, while not so with Apple.
And that applies to every thing related to privacy to me. Do i want to make this company powerful? No? Is there an alternative? Then I’ll try that if i can.
If it’s too difficult to find an alternative i try to live with it. It depends on how much i hate the company and how hard is it to change.
My own privacy, funny enough, is not really that important to me.
androidul@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
On the point of Android, I also noticed somewhat of a trend: some banking apps cannot run on LineageOS for instance, probably because it’s rooted or idk the true reasoning behind the company’s policy.
How to manage this situation?
guismo@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You are not going to like the answer, but… I just don’t do banking on a phone. I never did. Never trusted something that important on a device I’m carry around all the time. I do it on the desktop, which has an operating system I trust (Linux), that can’t get on anyone else’s hand.
I’m sorry. I wish I could give a solution. This has never been a problem to me but I understand it’s a massive thing for a lot of people.
On a more complicated option, the answer is: it depends. If you have a pixel with grapheneOS and you relocked the phone, I think a lot of bank apps will work. Or maybe a different bank doesn’t require that, or allows you to do it on the browser. I usually ask the bank before signing in if they will require me to use an app. If they do, I don’t chose them.
The reasons to require the user to use the app are almost always evil, anti-user, and shows it’s an organization that will fuck you up down the line, so it’s a good filter for me. A red flag.
But yeah, sorry. I’m just the wrong person to ask. Maybe someone else who looked into the subject can suggest something. I never even bothered finding a solution because I never saw a problem.