Real unfortunate news for GrapheneOS users as Revolut has decided to ban the use of ‘non-google’ approved OSes. This is currently being posted about and updated by GrahpeneOS over at Bluesky for those who want to follow it more closely.
Edit: had to change the title, originally it said Uber too but I cannot find back to the source of ether that’s true or not…
So it wasn’t really about attestation or security. I am really shocked!
This is used whenever shouting “think about the children!!!” or “terrorists!” is not applicable.
I don’t know how we managed to do the online banking thing all those prehistoric years before such “attestance programs” were implemented.
Oh, no, I can’t use the McDonald’s app!
Can’t remember the last time I spent money on McDonald’s over priced crap.
When they helped Trump win political points, they bought a lifetime boycott from my. “Franchisees are free to do whatever they like.” Is explicit consent from corporate, not the side step they thought it was.
Especially since their Franchisees are not free to do anything that corporate DOESN’T like when it comes down to the building, or decor, or supplies, or food, or special deals, or whatever the fuck else is involved in running the damn business.
However, for politics, gee shucks they just can’t have any rules and the franchisees are just able to do whatever.
My bullshitometer hit 11 on that one.
I finally had enough of them last week. 3 shitty, horrible cheeseburgers (no drink or side) cost as much as a proper toasted turkey club sandwich, apple fritter and coffee from Timmy’s. I’m done with their trash food. I’ll eat Timmy’s trash food, at least it’s halfway tasty.
Fair, but Timmies is also dogshit. Has been since it was acquired by the multinational conglomerate, Restaurant Brands Incorporated.
no. you can’t order from the mcdonalds website, it tells you to go to the app. if you wanted to you could use the doordash website, or the like
Every platform costs. (QA + dev + prod) * Platforms
Nearly Everybody has a phone. They have kiosks at every store and a register.
They don’t make more money for a web app.
Didn’t the GrapheneOS devs threaten to sue Google over the attestation issue last summer? Whatever happened to that?
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/112878067304840664
No need to link to bluesky
At what point it was acceptable for everyone to demand you download there app?
Why would I need any of these?
At the point that greedy corporate vultures realized that people don’t perceive or completely understand the privacy you’re giving up in exchange for a few percent off your order, which you better believe has already been jacked up to compensate for the discount.
GrapheneOS protects your privacy, so if the companies pushing their apps can’t harvest your data, they see no reason to let you use the app to get your discount.
If they can’t trick you, they don’t want you playing their game.
To add a little more context, I worked at a corporate marketing firm for 16 years, and I can see through their bullshit ulterior motives like a superpower.
The US is heading into a society where ALL corporations will have their own “loyalty” cards, which you present at time of payment for your discount, which actually serves to track your consumer habits (through being linked to your personal information like name, email address, phone number, physical address, etc).
Eventually, as this opt-in, privacy-invasive trend goes unregulated by our government (due to corporate infiltration of our government’s regulatory agencies, the term being “regulatory capture”. Learn this word, you will see it on your exam later.), what we see as advertised prices will begin to only apply to those with loyalty cards, the hidden meaning being that the sale price is contingent upon providing your private data. The corporations will pour millions into researching the smallest possible discount which will convince you to participate. Make no mistake, rest assured this is by design, the various industries have colluded, directly or indirectly, during this greedflation era to make it so financially difficult to exist, and have made us all so desperate to get by, we are everything but forced into their privacy disclosure program because we need every little bit that helps.
Goodbye privacy.
Say goodbye to the days of traditional, old-fashioned “here’s a sale, here’s the money” type of transaction. The buzzards in corporate finance department have found yet another incrementally more efficient way of extracting even more profit from you during the sale process. The era of loyalty cards/proprietary corporate apps is coming fast and hard, so get used to it because it won’t be going anywhere but further up your ass. I see these trends and this is ultimately why I left my corporate career. Once I saw it’s cold unquenchable heart of greed, I didn’t want to use my talent to further stoke the flames to revive the capitalistic greedfest that consumed the 80s. The only difference is that in the 80s, they lacked the technology, government policy, and the understanding of the socioeconomic mathematical models in order for the 1% to plunge us deeper into this hellscape we enjoy today.
The most ironic thing is that if you open a history book, you can see that we convinced nearly the entire world join us in crapping all over communism, because of its tendency to almost certainly lead to corruption and mass suffering DUE TO GREED. Now look at us, we’re just one bad presidential term away from being just as bad off as the USSR. “Trickle-down economics” didn’t “trickle down” at all, it just funneled more wealth to the greedy rich. Oligarchy, anyone? Now, as a result, if you want (or don’t want) a law to apply to you, you can just pay enough money into the corrupt system and get the rules changed for you. The concept of “trickle down economics” was truly a communist policy in sheep’s clothing.
I just ask other people in line for their loyalty cards. Or find valid barcodes for them online.