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And in practice it will eventually mean being unable to do online banking if you're on Linux. My Android phone with a custom ROM doesn't pass even a basic SafetyNet check, and this means I essentially cannot use mobile banking. For now, using a browser on my phone is a "workaround", but this proposal could change that


And yet millions of users benefit from SafetyNet every day. Just because something constrains openness does not make it inherently bad.


Millions of users are subjected to SaftetyNet. Your claim that this is to their benefit is unfounded.




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