A really big surprise following the creation of my secondo profile on my GrapheneOS, which i created explicitly to have a google environment where I could keep bank apps segregated. So, I removed bank apps and Google play store on main profile, created 2nd profile, installed Google play store on 2nd profile, then installed the bank app, which I successfully logged onto the first time. The second time it locked me out saying that my account was blocked. I called the bank and they said I have malware and I need to hard reset my phone and reinstall. I’m not telling them what my real setup is because they won’t understand. I wonder why the bank app thinks I have malware if I only have Google play store, the bank app and WhatsApp on my second profile?
Just sharing my day to day experience where I try to pursue privacy but I get screwed by the system. If you don’t give up all you data, your life is made difficult. That is why people choose convenience and don’t question too much. Its hassle free. How do we get out of this messed up system?
Nope. It’s a certificate Google only gives, if you meet conditions like Chrome, Maps, Youtube as main apps and some app shortcuts on launcher. Which in turn allows to install Play Store and to call it Android.
The same thing is AOSP, which vendors and LineageOS & co. build their ROM from.
what you speak of is certified android. but a vendor can sell android phones (not certified) without google services, and that is android.
Nope, they can’t call it Android then. Hard to google nowadays but there were legal cases in the past, i think with Amazon too? And Google got in trouble with the EU, because they got too far and required for the cert that no devices by the same vendor are allowed other operating systems.