I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?
Edit 2: I bought my Pixel 6 phone outright, directly from Google's Australian store. I have no creditors.
Were the courts not enough control for creditors? Since when are they allowed to lock you out of your purchased property without a court order?
I don't even live in the US, so what the actual fuck?
Edit 1: You can check it's installed (~~stock~~ Pixel 6 android 14) Settings > Apps > All Apps > three dot menu, Show system > search "DeviceLockController".
I highly recommend getting NetGuard, you can enable pro features via their website if you have the APK for as low as 0.10€, but donate more, because it's amazing. You can also purchase via Google Play store.
My Pixel5a from google store has it, but my other phone where I installed Murena e/OS (which is based on LineageOS) does not have it.
How do you go for banking apps on Murena e/OS? This is basically the only thing holding me back from changing my OS to GrapheneOS.
Dual boot is sadly not a thing according to Graphene (and I have idea about such things
I will tell you my secret. I have two phones. Two identities. One that has a normal google phone with facebook messenger and instagram, to keep in contact with family, and to have bank apps. And one, where the Murena e/OS is totally de-googled. Where you will only find FOSS apps, from Lemmy to Mastodon and Pixelfed. That second identity is my real one.
The mistake people make when they write about "moving to Linux" (or similar), is that they try to fit themselves into a box where the modern life doesn't affords them to. The wiser option is to play on both sides. You have an unassuming, clean-cut identity on one computer and phone, and you have your real self on the other, where it's ultra-private and secured, and often IP-spoofed if required. And it's not some kind of closeting thing, or illegal thing or anything, it's just private. How I would like things to be by default in a Utopian system.
On top of that, I believe that Murena's e/OS has a modified g-services app so full fledged Android apps, including bank apps, get fooled so they run. But I don't personally run them on that phone. That phone is FOSS only.
I run /e/OS on my Fairphone 3. The only thing that doesn't work is login with fingerprints with my banking app. Everything else works, I did not have a problem and I am now running it for more than 3 years I believe (or 4?).
Banking is a hit or miss, GrapheneOS should pass all security checks and more, but none of them is Google certified and apps start to request that, which sucks
My banking App works fine on GrapheneOS. At all i didnt really had any app so far which isnt working on GOS with sandboxed Google Services
With GrapheneOS, there's dual profile, a main without google, and a secondary profile with all the garbage you don't really need...
Reading the docs I don't believe this is the main reason security checks fail, even if you have GApps installed some apps will refuse to work