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A reminder to leave a negative review for the apps that force you to use google play services or completely don't work on custom android ROM's.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.smart_id This was the app. A lot of banks use it here in Lithuania for logging in, confirming transactions.

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[–] placebo@piefed.zip 34 points 1 day ago

There are many reasons to use a custom ROM and not a single reason to respond to your customer like that. Although their customers are banks and governments, so they couldn't care less about the actual users.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 46 points 1 day ago

On one hand fuck them for being anti consumer and on the other hand you got cooked.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 38 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wait until you learn that the bank isn't your friend.

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Wait until you learn that 90% of every economy — from monetary policy, to legislation and regulation, to foreign policy — is essentially dictated by less than 0.001% of the population.

[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

🤝🫂
Comrade, let's revolt.

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

0.001 % of 50 million (random example country population) is 500. So yes, it is roughly correct on the national level. How many officials do you want at that level?

[–] vanillama@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure they meant billionaires, since they tend to have disproportionate power for "democracies" and they do regardless of who's in power

[–] badmin@lemmy.today 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

imagine giving apps SMS access in stock roms

[–] Scoopta@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think you have to, I believe Google play services has an SMS auto verification thingy that can basically do this for you in the background. Google play services needs SMS access for it but...well it has that on stock roms

[–] lemmysmash@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago

Imagine giving Google SMS access... xD