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grapheneostoday at 7:34 AM1 replyview on HN

> I appreciate the truth more than narratives

It is the truth.

> Volkswagen did not ban you.

They banned GrapheneOS and other non-Google certified operating systems.

> Volkswagen probably don't even know that you exist.

They're aware of the existence of GrapheneOS. They've received immense pushback for banning it. They have customer support templates for responding to GrapheneOS user complaints.

> because like this it's just storytelling

Revolut shipped a check for ro.build.user being set to the string "grapheneos" resulting in using the app being blocked. They also banned the yellow verified boot state at the same time but quite notably did not ban the orange verified boot state. This was our release working around it to get the app working again:

https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025012600

We know what happened and what we had to do to work around it. It's verifiable that this was shipped by Revolut.

> I know of course that uncompromisingly maintaining something that challenges the status quo needs stories to keep the drive alive.

It's you who is pushing a false narrative.

> Idk man I think you people need grounding. That, or I just need to stop seeing the humanity in you, start seeing you as a software vending machine and applaud your (hate to say it, but) delusions, as those lead to you working harder for stuff that is useful to me.

You're not welcome to contact us again after this.


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