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Re:Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS by daveoc64 on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:19AM (#49464483)
GrapheneOS doesn't give you root access.

The OS is designed to offer privacy and security guarantees, which root access breaks, so they don't offer it.

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Re:Tell HN: PayPal Blocks GrapheneOS by Aachen on Thursday August 27, 2026 @03:15PM (#49469825)
Having access to your own device doesn't break anything, they just don't want to be put in the same category as other FOSS Android distributions and play by Google's book so that apps will at least allow one open OS to work
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