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It uses Android’s native work-profile feature to create a separate space for the apps you choose, so you could install the HSBC app there and it wouldn’t be able to see anything outside its little bubble.
The downside is that AFAIK you cannot have multiple work profiles on the same phone, so if you have a MDM solution from work already installed like Intune you won’t be able to use this, and given how draconian this app is, it might refuse to run if it detects its inside one. Worth a shot though.

This is the type of shit that has me losing faith in Android.
They added a fuck ton of restrictions on Clipboard Access because ‘Privacy,’ yet this clear privacy violation (with 0 use cases!!!) is still here.

You’d think that they’d create a permission you can toggle at will since they care about protecting you so much right?
Nope. Google’s the one who decides who gets to use this capability and your wishes as a user can go to hell.

The real question is: and???
So we’re harvesting demonic forces to power our shit?
That’s fuckin’ metal duuuuude. If you’re trying to make nuclear sound bad you failed.

Addendum:

If you think about the tech stack for what an OS is, I don’t think we need to work on the lower parts of the stack […] but we should work on innovating the user experience, because operating systems haven’t really changed for 40 years. […] these devices have so much information on us […] but they don’t leverage any of that information to make the experience any better.

Now this, I wholeheartedly agree.
I feel there’s a looooot of room to try new, innovative, potentially even wacky user UIs and experiences, Sailfish OS and Nintype/Minuum being my favorite examples of a existing concept being done with completely fresh UX, HOWEVER

Not having to work on the lower part of the stack??? What???

If we’re talking about x86, sure I guess, throw a Linux kernel on it and build whatever on top but ARM, specially on phones, looks like a compete hellscape! (to a outsider like me)
Ask any Linux phone Dev how easy it was to get the hardware going. Their heads will likely start spinning.

Could you build a new, modern mobile entirely from components with Mainline Linux support? And did this support come from the manufacturer or was it hundreds of hours of painful reverse engineering from the community?
New phone without having to work on the lower parts of the stack??? Dunno bout that man.

Migrating from Android to a possible “NothingOS” has the same energy as migrating from Twitter to BlueSky:
You’re escaping from one techbro’s grubby hands just to fall into another’s.

He’s gonna do the same shady shit eventually. It’s the way all these companies operate, if don’t go FOSS you ain’t escaping anythin’

You can use ChatGPT, Claude, Llama and Mixtral via DuckDuckGo at duck.ai

whatever code did that was messing with the content indexer

Those guys were determined you’d get what was on the tin, no matter what

Option 4: All of the above.

Don’t understand why they went for 15, in other times a update this small would have been 14.1

Nothing OS is doing it right by letting you choose between a circle, a pill or a big square.
Reminds me of the Tiles from Win Phone/Win 8

Man, imagine being the IT guy for an all Google shop.
“Hey, why nothing works?”
“Because the government fucking blocked Google!” lmao

Oh I’m cooked man, Deezer is my favorite source for music!
Though I could sub for a month then download what I need…

Between Minuum, Nintype and Keymonk, novelty keyboard makers really need to start open sourcing their abandoned products!

I thought this sounded familiar and sure enough, second paragraph:

The Pixel 6 series has a history of running into issues after Android updates. Last year, the Android 14 update locked some users out of their storage, and earlier this year, factory resets left many Pixel 6 devices unresponsive.

Disappointing, you’d think this wouldn’t happen with Google controlling both hardware and software

I’ve been using custom ROMs for a while now, but the reality is that they can only do so much to stop Android’s ever increasing restrictions.
And the aforementioned Integrity API also detects unlocked bootloaders, meaning this will gradually become more of a problem.

This is my currently dilemma.
Each year Android becomes more restrictive like iOS with none of the benefits, Rooting becomes harder as more apps tap into the Play Integrity API (and strong Integrity is on the way to kill most workarounds for it), iPhone got a little better but is still locked down as fuck, where the hell do I go to? 😒

It’s amazing how Google Play keeps imposing more and more restrictions to the point they’re killing legitimate apps, yet won’t stop actual malware from being published.
Legit, some days ago one of my coworkers had installed some “water reminder” app that was pure malware, didn’t even have a icon on the homescreen, just opening random ads. Reported multiple times, I’d tell y’all the name if I could remember it

I swear one day I’ll learn Android app development just to take a stab at recreating unique input methods like this and Nintype 😢

What does Perplexity do different than other AI solutions?
Heard about it but haven’t tried yet

Xiaomi’s MIUI, for all its faults got it on lock too.
Google should really be doing better (on lots of areas, not only Android)