As a currently totally “normal user” - no root, stock OS, I would have been screwed by this security while travelling
Driving in Italy you need to know about ZTL zones - places cars are secretly restricted in - and there’s an app for that, but the app is only useful for drivers in Italy and if your phone doesn’t default to the Italian play store you can’t see it
Your only option is to side load it
It would be no fun to get your phone working with ZTLs only to lose access to your bank apps
of course Another way to track you
Android peaked with version 9.
Fuck Google. Hopefully Magisk & modules will find a way to keep hiding root from crappy bank apps.
I see you wrote “& modules”, because you certainly know where Magisk developer works and why he removed the option to hide it from other apps. It’s just hopeless. It’s just a matter of time until this kind of crap gets into the legislation in the name of security.
I sideloaded fdroid and install most of my apps over that. From the text I don’t understand what the actually change will be.
For apps installed through the play store, developers have the option to add these “layers of security” with Play Integrity. The one the screenshot shows keeps you from opening and using an app if specific apps are detected to be running in the background (like a bank app blocking you from using it if a screen recorder app is running on the background). Another feature is apps blocking them from running if they weren’t installed from the play store (like side loading a bank app and it prevents it from running because it might be malicious).
For apps distributed outside of the Play Store (and for people side loading them) and those running rooted/bootloader unlocked devices nothing changes, as Play Integrity is no longer in effect in those cases
the image at the top seems to be the only real hint - it looks like it’s supposed to be for restricting which apps may run in the background while performing “secure” tasks in other apps
