this is the primary (official) reason why most banking apps require an unrooted device, and check that the bootloader hasn’t been tampered with. they don’t really care what you do with your phone, but a custom ROM doesn’t have to comply with the usual official checks and balances, and so theoretically could be malicious.

the bank “trusts” the official OEM rom, because the OEM rom belongs to a company that can be “controlled”. ie. pressured into ensuring apps are safe, etc.

the bank doesn’t trust the open source rom, because it isn’t “owned” by an entity that can be controlled.

a reason lots of companies don’t like open source, is because"who do you sue when something goes wrong?". closed source isn’t any safer, but at least you know who to sue when it breaks.

I’ve heard a phrase for that: “happy effin Monday” ;)

The definition of “reasonable ads” and “just a few ads” keeps sliding. I’m old enough to remember the early internet, and that this lie has been told many times.

Just a few acceptable ads always becomes many unacceptable ads, because money.

some incorrect answers get upvotes ironically, often when the correct answer seems obvious. but I guess it depends on the type of question, and the sub

this is a good way of describing it. it’s been so many years since the early internet, that I didn’t even recognize it why the vibes felt familiar. but now that you mentioned it, yes, it’s exactly the early internet vibes. and I didn’t even realize I was missing them. I’ll be sticking around too

law of averages: everywhere there’s large numbers of people, we’re bound to run into people problems

but I’m optimistic that this community will help to self moderate to weed out the bad actors. I’m also hopeful the toxic cesspool will self congregate in their own instances, and leave this one alone.

agreed. what I like about lemmy is the federated community run aspect of it. it will be much harder for corporate overlords to infiltrate and corrupt, as there isn’t a central organization/entity they can buy to gain control. or, that’s the theory anyway.