Comment on Google Play’s latest security change may break many Android apps for some power users. The Play Integrity API uses hardware-backed signals that are trickier for rooted devices and custom ROMs to pass.

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• OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Already does. Some apps just don’t work. It’ll notif. And say Google api failed to validate login to your Google account. Example app EBay.

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  • impotentwashbowl@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Interesting. If I just don’t use any apps from the play store and only use stuff from fdroid with no play services I should see no issues though yeah?

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    • jjlinux@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There’s always a chance any app, even from fdroid, will require play services, but that’s still highly unlikely. You should be fine with fdroid alone, yes.

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      • forwhomthecattolls@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        can confirm, I’m running GrapheneOS right now with F-Droid and some extra repos as my only app store, it works fine for me. but I don’t use banking apps (web browsers do fine for that), and I’m using a de-Firebase-d version of Signal (Molly F-Droid) so no issues so far with no GMS and no SafetyNet.

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    • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Long as you beware that F droid apps could be malware or some other kind of bad actors. It’s a free range marketplace just be smart. Just because something is FOSS or open source doesn’t mean it’s free of bad stuff.

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  • termaxima@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    TF does eBay need the device to be verified for ?

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    • OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      No idea but that is one I know about. Apparently the list keeps growing of these API calls being denied or flagged.

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