When the Canadian Kimberly Prost learned Donald Trump’s administration had imposed sanctions on her, it came as a shock.
For years, she has sat as a judge at the international criminal court, weighing accusations of war crimes, genocide and crimes against humanity; now she is on the same list as terrorists and those involved in organised crime. “It really was a moment of a bit of disbelief,” she said.
That’s why we need an alternative to US credit cards yesterday. And also a spine transplant to politicians.
It’s not just cards. Many banks today require using a mobile app for online banking, and those apps require an Apple- or Google-certified device and an Apple or Google account. While it is possible to open those accounts under a false name (the apps are free so you don’t need to enter payment info), this is still an absurd amount of leverage the US has on everyday people’s activities in other countries.
All my banks have apps but I haven’t found any that don’t support just a browser
Yeah, I got credit cards and bank apps available. But I use the browser for all of them.
Yes, that too. However, you have alternatives to Android to some degree that would allow a banking app to work. Nevertheless, we need a non-US operating system for mobile devices and so on.
Not if an app uses Play Integrity. The entire purpose of Play Integrity is to not work on anything that is not a Google-certified OS.
Yes, that’s why I said to some degree. I didn’t test it, but at least some banking apps work from what I hear. I plan to test it soon.
Not only US credit cards, we also need online payment alternatives. And the most annoying thing is the google play services requirements for every single app, just like this one as an example
https://mastodon.social/@jdelacueva/116103089304791787
It’s usually because they use Google for notification services
In Europe there’s WERO which was started to replace Paypal. It’s still in its infancy though.
Infancy? At the very least, it’s already learned to walk. According to Wikipedia, within 14 months of its launch, 43.5 million users were registered.
In our country, we use QR code payments. Currently, we have agreements to use this payment method with several countries in Asia. But it’s still infuriating because most online payment and banking apps require Google Play Services.
Try aurora store , iam on graphene
OS ,banc apps work
They isolate your app, right. That is good enough for me for an interim period.