So opt in plugin support, and some commit comments? Not even actual code?

It’s not AI generated.

That’s not how it works, innocent until proven guilty and all that. Also I’ve followed Tantacrul for a while and he made a video on the product design of the app - don’t recall any mentions of AI.

Based on?

That’s why I sync mine on Bitwarden, on a self-hosted instance of it, so even if I lose my phone I can still access my 2fa, though increased risks by putting all my eggs in one basket

No, they’d be doing it anyway, with or without you fighting back. It’s your choice whether you want to make it easy for them to do so.

The hate for 2fa is so stupid. Hate the websites that need you to use their app to use their service, they didn’t have to do that and it only helps them collect data on you, but 2fa is an additional layer of security.

I doubt most people even know you can change it. Edge is the default browser on windows. Chromium. Chrome is the default browser on android (though I suppose Samsung has a custom browser and they’re the main android device people are buying)

Maybe in like Firefox 4 days

Yeah that is also done in some places but afaik it’s not legal to do so in most places without letting you know what is being monitored. It’s a pain in the ass

Yes, companies have software running on company property usually that checks what you’re running and installing. I can’t even get admin perms on my work machine without asking IT with a good reason. They can also see your browser history and what websites you go to, as an fyi to not browse anything that you wouldn’t feel comfortable talking to your boss and HR about on a work machine.

Company hardware isn’t checked by user agents but actual running processes

Well you say that but it’s a lot easier to get into for people than a traditional desktop, the concept of depth helps a lot with figuring out which window is on top, and you don’t have to learn to associate a cursor with your hand, because your hand is your cursor. There’s a lot of abstractions that we’ve made when creating PCs that can be done away with in VR.

Yes, it’s not all sunshine and rainbows, the lack of many buttons does mean the ways of interacting with content are heavily limited, but it definitely has huge applications, and it’s why it still sees use in areas of discipline that benefit from the 3d of it, like surgeons or architects, because It’s one thing to see a flat scan of a heart, and another to be able to move a 3d representation of it around in front of you.

That study was redone and the results were less conclusive the second time around

F-droid basic does have it, not sure why the base app wouldn’t

Thanks OP, uninstalled

It works through the Google play services afaik so it won’t.

It’s really Google’s fault for implementing this, the banks do get some of the blame for using it too when it has nothing to do with security though.

Not really cause you need to patch those apps to support microg instead afaik, at least you do with YouTube, and banking apps probably have ways to check if they’ve been meddled with.

To expand on that if you’re curious, there are afaik 2 types of attestation to verify it’s a safe device, device attestation (which checks for a locked bootloader and some specific fingerprints), this is safe to fake for custom roms. The other one is the one i mentioned done through the software side with Google play services and such. That’s impossible to fake currently (afaik, been a minute since I could install a custom rom).

There are basically 3 types of OSs out there:

• Google-approved android (these come with Google apps, and most importantly Google services, which are basically what is going to BD doing the blocking for the cause Keep Android Open is concerned about. Google services already has some additional attestation stuff in, which many banks use, which only work if you’ve got a stock google-approved OS)
• Non Google approved android (generally based on AOSP which is the actually open source code Google publishes for android, these don’t come with google services so they fail the play store attestation, generally people will be needing microg to use stuff like YouTube, which is basically a light google services replacement)
• Graphene OS (it gets its special category because it sandboxes apps so you can use Google services apps in a way that doesn’t give them access to the rest of your system and therefore shouldn’t be able to mess with what you want to install, best of both worlds but it’s not foolproof).

There are a few other projects like /e/ but that’s just AOSP with a coat of paint, graphene is a much more substantial change to how your phone locks down app access.