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Isn’t Revolut that company owned by the son of a member of the board of Russia’s Gazprom? Weren’t they also partnering with a mobile phone company that was owned by Russians, so to get around sanctions they sold it to a German Russophile for €1, meanwhile continuing to pay profits to sanctioned Russians?
Revolut isn’t really a good alternative for Buy European - and I say that as a user myself. By all means take advantage of the deals and low rates (good currency exchange rates), but be wary of integrating it into your traditional banking and definitely think twice before making it your main bank.
Also, they very intentionally decided to block use of their app on custom ROMs, cutting out all Graphene/Calyx/e/OS users.
So… not great.
At least you can get around that.
How?
Magisk (root) plus possibly modules. I don’t think Revolut requires that, I think you can just set Magisk to Zygisk domain and hide root by putting Revolut in the deny list.
If it requires more then you’ll need to look into MicroG implementations on your device. Assuming Pixel devices (because the user above said GrapheneOS etc), then you’ll be installing MicroG as a Magisk module along with Play Integrity Fix, Shamiko, Tricky Store and Zygisk Assistant, at least for Android 14. You’ll need a clean keybox file though, and those are very tricky to get, if you want to pass strong integrity but you should be able to get most Play Store Integrity checks to pass then. Without the keybox though some banking apps won’t work (because those banks are bastards) without passing strong integrity.
Damn, I guess I’ll keep living without them.
Is this list outdated?
https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
Lul
I heard about a client for Graphene once tho
Also, isnt revolut just a payment processor like paypal?
It’s more like a bank. You get accounts for different currencies and you can buy/sell stock, commodities and crypto. Unlike PayPal, they have instant SEPA transfers.
can’t we just have one decent thing for a moment before it becomes tied to some fascist asshole? what about Monzo, is the situation the same?
For anyone interested:
TLDR:
“Storonsky went on to release an open letter rejecting accusations of the company’s potential links to the Kremlin. In the letter, he assures customers that Revolut has data servers only in the EU. It states that Storonsky’s father is an engineering scientist for the company Promgaz, without specifying that this belongs to the Russian gas conglomerate Gazprom. It also declares that DST Global Fund’s only connection to Russia was that one of its six partners, Yuri Milner, was born in Russia.”
GNU Taler?
how does this even work? it looks like a framework for organizations with banking licence etc to use for certain financial operations.
They exploited job applicants and made them work for free too.
I love seeing Wero grow!
I’m a happy Revolut user and this is great news!
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