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by arsome 811 days ago
Largely depends on your priorities and level of effort.

You can bypass all current app checks using Magisk and Play Integrity Fix, but it's a bit of work to maintain and can break occasionally. You gain in this case full control of your device like a desktop OS, block ads, modify app behavior, disable unwanted system features, but you have to put in effort to maintain it.

However if you don't want to deal with that, you can also just not use those apps, use it like you would a Librem or PinePhone, load primarily open source software to it, optionally don't even bother with play store, etc. Might not be for everyone, but if you don't care that much for Google Wallet or multi-player games on your phone, it's not a bad option.

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> but it's a bit of work to maintain and can break occasionally.

Which is a major problem because my tolerance for my bank's app not working when I open it is so low it might as well be non-existent.

I personally gave up this fight.

Or switch banks and stop fighting.
I just switched to another bank. No one should accept apps with such checks.