They do. People won't buy good products if they have green bubbles. Guess who controls the bubble color.

Capitalism is the art of making your customers act like this.

And AT&T shouldn't allow you to connect other phones, or modems at all. You should only be able to get a phone by renting it monthly from AT&T - everything else should be illegal.

YouTube's market is still shit though. High end of that market is those billionaires who pay for actual cinemas in their mansions.

Android is just as bad. But it has one huge advantage: you can install apps on it.

I got a Pixel 10, installed GrapheneOS. Then Google Play (which is sandboxed). I have 99,9% of all apps and a barebones launcher and some barebones fossify apps. Its pretty good, ugly if you let it but not bad

Will you put a Linux phone on the market?

pinephone has this but it never really became a thing

Librem too

If they have legal requirements for attestation, they also have the option to properly attest Graphene.

Yep. Not sure all of them are attesting GrapheneOS, but there's at least 5 banks officially supporting it.

https://github.com/PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report/is...

If you want more security and privacy, don't use your phone for payment - use your card.

I don't know if that's really significant. But yeah technically you give up less information by using the card directly instead. But it's like going from 98% privacy loss to 99%.

Cash and Monero are private so they're in a different space and are what should be prioritized.

It's more difference than you think. Your card isn't logged into Google, Facebook, Signal and so on. It doesn't route through Cloudflare. It doesn't even connect to T-Mobile, Verizon, or Stingray automatically.

I was also surprised by the banking app experience. After making me verify my identity about 10 times to prove I'm me and not a hacker, they finally let me use it...

I've heard some people had good results by going to their bank branch and demanding them to unblock their phone or they'll close their account. Apparently they have a checkbox to disable phone attestation requirements for a customer.

Although if you just want a degoogled phone with some features and don't want to hide a criminal enterprise, I doubt an out-of-support Graphene phone is any worse than an out-of-support Huawei or Xiaomi or Realme or Motorola phone.