Du coup ils vont refaire la scène mais au tribunal maintenant 😂

Apps coming from the Play Store doesn't make them trustworthy, safe or secure. Most malware apps on Google Mobile Services devices are installed from the Play Store. Similarly to the Play Integrity API, it's Google reinforcing their monopolies with security as an excuse for it.

Multiple prominent banking apps in Europe have already implemented support for GrapheneOS via hardware attestation. The pace of apps adopting the Play Integrity API is unfortunately currently faster than apps adding support for GrapheneOS. This is due to Google marketing it.

Google Play Integrity permits highly insecure devices with years of missing High/Critical severity security patches. They pretend any device licensing Google Mobile Services is secure while running the stock OS and anything else is insecure. This is a lie to lock out competition.

We're going to add a secure way of working around this without breaking the app source security model. We'll be adding support for having the OS automatically verify the Play Store signing metadata and then inform Play services those apps were installed from the Play Store.

This is being done alongside Google recommending app developers forbid installing their apps from the Play Store on operating systems not licensing Google Mobile Services. The combination of these feature ends up blocking users from easily using the apps without modifying them.

It's normal for many third party apps to have bugs uncovered by hardware memory tagging which is why we don't yet have it enabled for user installed apps by default.

It isn't normal to have frequent crashes for the OS if that's what you're referring to. The OS itself should be quite stable.

Yeah totally, it's the apps that are messy. The OS is perfect. Sorry for any misunderstanding!

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I also want to thank the @grapheneos.org team for the amazing work they are doing. You are in my opinion the only competitor to Apple on this field.

Anyways, if you're looking to move to Android, I highly recommend Graphene and only Graphene. In my opinion, any other ROM isn't worth it if it can't be better than Apple on the security and privacy side. The Pixel hardware is modern, and GrapheneOS fully takes advantage of it.

Furthermore, the fingerprinting protection is weak, and none of the browsers have passed Fingerprint.com tests (so far, only Safari on iOS and macOS with Advanced Fingerprinting Protection, and Firefox on Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser on desktop have resisted).

The only thing are the frequent crash and some apps fundamentally poorly coded such as TikTok that requires MTE to be disabled.

GrapheneOS also makes it free from political uncertainty (as you can always download APKs from source), preventing a single operator like Apple from censoring apps like secure messaging apps, Tor or VPNs under a potential surveillance state (e.g., Chat Control).

Having that within a cost-effective phone such as the Pixel 6a is really what sets everything apart. It truly provides everything you want from a modern smartphone, is affordable, and free from economic uncertainty.

- Privacy-wise, it's obviously better than Apple, with basically zero telemetry and a wide range of app stores available (Aurora, F-Droid), but the Play Store and its services seem unavoidable at this time, considering that many apps verify that they were downloaded from it.

- Security-wise, it's very impressive; it's clearly better than iOS (hardened malloc, MTE, self-destruction/duress code, Private Space, guest mode, true Always-On VPN with encrypted DNS supported natively) minus the proprietary Apple code and lock-in.