We seriously need a way to sandbox apps, where they cant see shit outside their sandbox
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Afaik that's how the corporate apps stuff works, I byod (I really should have a second phone) and the work stuff is totally on its own, uses a different keyboard, opens a different browser uses a different authenticator etc.
If only we had that
Isn't that the purpose of the work profile?
Also a way to spoof the input.
And then i complained that my bank blocked access if adb was enabled...
If there's no loan attached to that account, for me this message reads "sorry, we don't want you as a customer. Please contact a bank teller to have a full refund, uninstall this app and don't forget to leave a 1 star review"
I'm not willing to compromise on this shit. My phone is my phone.
Imagine one of my medical apps refusing to run because of adb..
My medical app doesn't let me take a screenshot of the bill statement when I wanted to contest an upcharge.
luckily there was still an option to download a pdf, but still there was no option at all to disable that BS.
That's wack as hell.
In my case, Medtronic does a lot to prevent inspection of how their apks work at all, encrypting and obfuscating the code to make open-source emulation extremely difficult.
Luckily, hackers don't quit.
Time to change banks
money laundering is alright but how dare they impose gboard to their clients
Sounds like it's time to use the website and not the app. And if you can't use the website instead of an app, you should probably switch banks.
I don't know a single bank that hasn't reinvented the wheel and is using their app as a glorified authentication app for generating totp codes
Mine actually. I'm in the United States, but I actually switched banks. And the vast majority of the reason I did so was because my bank did not allow me to use the website to use their functionality. And so I said fuck you and left them.
how the fuck do they see that you have these apps?? Wasn't it google's justification for destroying /proc and all resource monitor apps with it that they have put querying of installed apps behind a permission?
I saw a bank in my country requiring to have the permission for apps usage, the one that you have to go in settings and toggle it. Refuse and it closes the app
Perhaps you could report it to Google Play for that?
Google enforces rules only against small devs. Big companies are allowed to do what the fuck they want.
Example with one of those "ad viewing apps disguised as games", every single screenshot is misleading, showing a different game to what actually will be downloaded. It's clearly a violation of Google Play terms that read:
Screenshots must demonstrate the actual in-app or in-game experience, focusing on the core features and content so users can anticipate what the app or game experience will be like. Use captured footage of the app or game itself.
In the example not a single screenshot demonstrate the actual game experience.
Google sees the big cash influx from ad impressions and IAP from whales and is closing all the eyes
Tencent and Alibaba instead are still allowed to illegally fingerprint and track the user by placing tracking data in /Pictures/.gs_fs0 which for some reason they can access even without storage/photo permission
So /proc is virtual so it is only processes and not apps.
The app probably requires a permission that grants it access to that information.
all apps have their own processes, and the names of the processes were often the package name
You need to formally complain to your bank, OP.
I thought this was for employees of the bank on the work phone.
If my bank does this, they can kiss goodbye my $254.21.
They are now blocking you because you are not using gboard and sam keyboard. Now it's too much . I stopped using mobile banking became they need g play services.
That's annoying! I'm using Graphene and I just installed KDE Connect from F-Droid to test, which didn't trigger, however it did bounce me for using Heliboard. Changing to default keyboard and reloading worked, ie it can only see my currently active one.
Using Shelter to set up a second profile, or the new Private Space feature on 15 may help provide isolation.
Halifax/ Bank of Scotland/ Lloyds does an integrity check that rejects Graphene or LineageOS phones completely.
Check out Shelter by PeterCxy [FDroid - Source]
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.
Unfortunately, the work profile is already used up.
Graphene and starling, works great