Found this notification this morning on my pixel 6.

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    Mullvad is really for anonymous sessions. It’s meant to blend in with every other Mullvad instance on the Net so it helps make users harder to identify. It’s not geared towards daily use.

    On desktop, I switched to Librewolf and installed the Dark Reader add-on.

    I will continue using Firefox on Android because I have absolutely no illusions about my privacy on this fucking thing.

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      117 hours ago

      GrapheneOS is pretty good, as a more private alternative to Android, though the downside is that it’s only available for Pixel phones. I bought a used one on ebay.

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        I wonder if Square would still work, for example? I haven’t flashed open source ROMs on my phone since like 2012.

        Honestly though, I just consider the phone a lost cause when it comes to privacy & use it accordingly. Uncle Googs is always watching, even when the damn thing is turned off.

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          the thing about degoogled OS is lack of SafetyNet support and it is important for banking apps.

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                The bank doesn’t need to manually support GrapheneOS, the app just needs to behave appropriately - which, as you can see from that list, the overwhelming majority of them do.

                If my bank stops supporting it, then I will move banks. But I doubt it will ever really become an issue.

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                  110 hours ago

                  many countries are not supported like South Africa, Uruguay, Paraguay, Latvia, Brunei etc. that is why degoogled OS support for banking apps are patchy and I don’t think normies are bother to install it.

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                    110 hours ago

                    you’re misinterpreting that list, it is not exhaustive - it’s a list of banking apps which someone has tried and updated the list. the lack of a specific country or bank on that list doesn’t mean it doesn’t work, it means nobody has tested it, or nobody has added it to the list, at least

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            Thx, that’s exactly my concern as I remember it being an issue when I was flashing ROMs in the past.