Pay securely with an Android smartphone, completely without Google services: This is the plan being developed by the newly founded industry consortium led by the German Volla Systeme GmbH. It is an open-source alternative to Google Play Integrity. This proprietary interface decides on Android smartphones with Google Play services whether banking, government, or wallet apps are allowed to run on a smartphone.
For those to whom this made you think GrapheneOS, they’re opposed as this is basically substituting Goodle for another proprietary system with no meaningful improvement to security.
https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617
I’d really appreciate it more if Graphene folk would be more constructive with criticism, because very often it comes across as incoherent and knee jerk rants. Really off-putting.
GrapheneOS themselves never said it’s proprietary. This is (part of) what they actually said:
@GrapheneOS@GrapheneOS.social is such a toxic account, holy shit. They are always fire and brimstone. It’s as if they don’t have a “chill” nor "constructive"mode.