From what I can tell, all of this shit is on Google versions of Android. If you are on AOSP such as lineage or graphene, from what I understand this has no effect whatsoever.

If you think that app is not collecting your data, you are totally naive.

The one good thing about banks is they make these little plastic rectangles with metal chips in them that you can insert into a device at the terminal in order to pay for your stuff. No bank app required.

At least in the United States, these little plastic rectangles have a series of 16 numbers on them, followed by a date and a year and a three digit code.

I’m actually surprised this came up again. Wasn’t this a thing back like a year and a half ago or something as well? I remember a big push to get on unified push about then.

Math, since it has a 10 watt minimum power draw, that would mean it would use 7.5 kilowatts per month just to have it turned on. Now at least where I live, that’s $1.11 extra.

The biggest thing they cite is that you have to trust fdroid to build the applications properly without inserting changes.

The way to fix that is something called reproducible builds where the developer builds their app and says that their build has this ID and then the software provider builds the app and compares the ID.

If the IDs match 100% then you can be certain that the App Store has not tampered with the developers version of the app.

I actually take it even one step farther than that. I don’t want a bank app on my phone because it’s proprietary and I don’t know what it’s doing. So I only access my bank through the web browser.

For my wallets

This is good to know. I might need to upgrade the storage for my Monero node.

Um, hold up a second. That snippet of the article said that it produces something that’s commonly used as a drain cleaner. That does not sound safe. I don’t particularly go around breathing drain cleaner fumes.

Which is why they take the bribe in monero

Want in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up first.