Wtf is the reasoning here, just checked and it’s broken for me also.

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    7 months ago

    Reasoning

    They stated its for reducing spam and that jazz.

    However, it has the hidden benefit of yet another reason to avoid rooting, which means less access to functional adblocking

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      7 months ago

      yet another reason to avoid rooting

      we can all agree that literally nobody would give up their rooted phone if they’re forced to choose between root or RCS

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        7 months ago

        I don’t care how many services they break, I’m not giving up root access.

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            Been paying a bunch on my rooted custom a13 rom in the past 2 months. 1 single magisk module (Play Integrity Fix by chiteroman) was all it took, simpler than it has been in a long time. I have full safetynet or 2/3 play integrity reliably, which to my understanding is all google can reasonably enforce on modern devices and android versions for a while to come.

            So with sadness I must say I can’t use google pay at all … cause they killed it. But google wallet (formerly google pay, formerly android pay, formerly google wallet, formerly google checkout), works just fine

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              You better set yourself a reminder for 20 minutes from now to update this when they rename the app again.