You know it’s kinda funny that I can’t even run the MC Donalds app without doing some fuckery. But my banking app will throw a hissy fit if I try to sign into my account without a rooted or custom ROMed phone because that’s how they know it’s me apparently. Also shame that my banking app stopped supporting Android 8.0 a few years back. I miss my LG V20.
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Integrate777@discuss.online 4 weeks agoThey’ll probably also release a new API to allow apps to check if user have enabled sideloading. Then overzealous apps like fucking mcdonalds will throw a hissy fit about and refuse to work unless you turn it off. Also your bank too, just to really twist the knife.
dorumon@lemmy.cafe 4 weeks ago
aurelar@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Why the fuck would a McDonald’s app care?
Integrate777@discuss.online 3 weeks ago
Who knows. Maybe they have that one dev on the app team that’s on a crusade to detect every single abnormality.
He might also be following the rooting/magisk scene. Back then whenever magisk updates its root hiding system and successfully bypasses apps, mcdonalds are the first to detect it again.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
Let em all shut me down. If they don’t need my business, I don’t need theirs. I just found out that Casio makes a g-shock with Bluetooth and you can screw with it using python and an unlisted API.
One more nail in the coffin for my smartphone footprint. I just want an 8" linux tablet, a watch that can give me messages from signal and a battery powered access point.
Integrate777@discuss.online 4 weeks ago
The biggest problem are the banking apps. If you’re standing at checkout and your payment app says
“Unverified apps have been detected on your phone. Please uninstall and try again.”
99% of people will delete FDroid and never sideload anything every again.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
With every credit card in existence, supporting Tap to pay these days. We have a pretty decent alternative.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Please tell me there is a video about this that is not on youtube.
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
To be honest, it’s probably the last thing that doesn’t exist properly on YouTube.
But like 99.999% of everything else, it’s not on peertube either.
If you hit a Google search, there are probably a handful of projects for Bluetooth, Casio, Python.
There are a bunch of videos of people reviewing the watch, but they’re watch reviewers. Other than the Android or iOS app, they hardly touch that it supports anything.