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Yeah, paying with credit card also works for me. And I use the browser a lot for stuff like that. Just the added layers in the apps sometimes don't work. Like when I tried riding one of those electric scooters. I was able to put in my credit card details and they got accepted, and I know my phone is capable of doing NFC, but somehow there is something else in that app that prevents me from doing the actual transaction and rent the scooter. Online-shopping and things like that work fine. I don't need an App to use Amazon or PayPal... So I wouldn't know either.
Thx. I'm going to look up the de-googled phones you mentioned. I think I will try to use my Pixel as long as it works, but in theory it isn't supported anymore and I'm supposed to buy a new one now. At least that's what Google and GrapheneOS tell me.
I'm holding out hope for KernelSU, in which case I won't need to care about custom ROMs and things like safetyNET either. A root from kernel-space + a custom launcher and I won't miss OEM android at all. The only thing I haven't figured out is patch management, but I'll leave that to people more intelligent than me