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Re:Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloa... by ktosobcy on Saturday April 06, 2024 @12:25PM (#39953476)
Eh... that's why I'm pondering going back to OnePlus (after short affair with Samsung for the past 2 years) because it's somewhat annoying not being able to tweak stuff...

Alas, it's also annoying that some dumb banks (I'm looking at you ING Poland) consider rooted device as "insecure" but thay have no problem if I open a bank page using admin/root account on the computer)

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Re:Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloa... by iggldiggl on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:11PM (#39953789)
> I'm looking at you ING Poland

Hmm, funnily enough at least a few years ago German Ing-Diba didn't care about rooted phones. I switched banks at some point though, so I have no idea whether that's still true.

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Re:Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloa... by ktosobcy on Saturday April 06, 2024 @01:26PM (#39953909)
It's only a brand, there is almost nothing in common between local branches.

As for ING - about 4-5 years ago it was possible to spoof the check but about 3 years ago they went full bonkers and if you didn't get the app from playstore (so for example aurora) it refused to launch...

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