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If you run a rooted phone and download malware, that malware can gain root and do payments on your behalf. Then PayPal has to deal with you revoking payments e
by biosboiii 1mo ago
If you run a rooted phone and download malware, that malware can gain root and do payments on your behalf.
Then PayPal has to deal with you revoking payments etc., they don't want to so they forbid you from using PayPal on a rooted phone.
- master-lincoln 1mo agoIf this happens it's the device owners fault and they should be responsible for it.
- Grombobulous 1mo agoWhich they would be anyway since PayPal isn’t a bank and isn’t FDIC insured. They allow you to open PayPal.com on any web browser. Running Windows/macOS/Linux is basically identical to a rooted Android phone (you have local admin rights, you can modify and automate the browser, and can run unsigned code).
- bayindirh 1mo agoNo, no... In 2026, all footguns are banned. Even in programming, so if something allows a footgun, it's banned now. Apparently the world can't adult and be responsible for their actions, or people believe in that.
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- fylo 1mo agoGraphene isn't rooted.
- Grombobulous 1mo agoNot only is it not rooted, it runs real Google Play services. It’s not microG.
- ruszki 1mo agoMalwares can possibly do that even on non rooted phones if a privilege escalation attack is possible. And just yesterday, there was an article here about exactly one of those. Also I highly doubt that there is any real statistics anywhere about whether this is a real threat or not. I guarantee that nobody did such statistics properly. The only known data is from companies which sell root prevention tools, so totally unreliable. And internally I guarantee, that no banks collect such info. So no, banks lie about this only because they can sell this to judges as safety feature, when they fuck up, which happens continuously.
- encom 1mo agoFor that argument to hold, they'd also have to blacklist any phone not running the newest, most up to date Android version, because all older versions presumably have known exploits. So that basically leaves Pixel phones.
- yjftsjthsd-h 1mo agoIf you have a rooted phone, download malware, and hit the allow button to give the malware root access, then it can do whatever it wants. If you have a nominally unrooted phone on an old Android version and download malware, it can exploit a kernel bug and give itself root access and do whatever it wants. Protecting against the first case and not the second is at best security theater.