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Re:Going FLOSS-only on Android by philippnagel on Sunday August 19, 2018 @11:49AM (#17794713)
One tangential issue I have, is that all NFC-payment apps seem to use Google Pay or some sort of API detecting custom roms or root, disabling NFC-payment features.
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Re:Going FLOSS-only on Android by watermans on Monday August 20, 2018 @05:17AM (#17798596)
Honestly this is probably a good idea.

When you think about how many people use Johnny No Good Hacker’s lastest ROM because it’s largely the OEM supported Android x with one or two Android ++x supported features, it really sounds like a good idea.

It would be nice if there were a safe way to bypass that “immobilizer,” though for people that trust their ROM origin and the software on their phone.

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