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It does until it doesn't. Joy to one morning discover I can't pay for my bus ticket, while I'm already on the bus.
Magisk and Safetynet do.
Yes because Google totally can't change Safetynet on their end... which is what happened last time I ran a custom ROM, in November 2021.
You do realize Safetynet is Google's service, running on their servers, right? If they change how it works in the background, it will break on your phone.
No, they don't. And even if they needed to, they can do it without me knowing it. When was the last time Play gave you an update notification, let alone one that contained Play Services?
You can't disable those without breaking GMS. Feel free to try though! And again, there is no guarantee that is what actually breaks Safetynet.
Let's compare this to videogames. You can get banned without an update being pushed to you, because Safetynet is a server side DRM "service"
I've been running rooted Android phones for more than 10 years now and have been using Google pay for about 4 of those years. Never had that happen. That seems very much like something you screwed up.
I've been running rooted Android phones for more than 10 years now and have been using Google pay for about 4 of those years. Never had that happen. That seems very much like something you screwed up.
You are free to think so, but it's hard to screw up something that worked for months and without any configuration changes breaks itself