Comment by josephcsible

4 years ago

Magisk can fake them for now, but only because Google still supports some pre-TrustZone phones. On newer phones, you can't fake TrustZone, and eventually older phones will just always fail SafetyNet.

That sucks. If this is what the future holds for Android, I think I'm just gonna switch to Apple already. There's no point to Android if Google insists on destroying everything that made it great.

  • No, don't! For as bad as Google is being, Apple is being worse on basically every axis.

    • Yeah, for now. Android is barely open source anymore, the old apps were replaced with proprietary Google stuff. The Play Store locks everybody into Google's proprietary ecosystem and it can't be legally distributed with custom Androids. Now there's this hardware attestation business that ensures we can't hack our devices and apps anymore. I bet one day we won't even be able to install unsigned apps anymore.

      It's all so tiresome.