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>reboot to bootloader -> unlock -> you will use your warranty -> yes
It’s fucking outrageous that companies are allowed to blatantly lie like that (you will not, in fact, lose your warranty – Federal law doesn’t allow it). Every company that displays such a fraudulent message ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse.
ought to be fined by the FTC, or worse
Fines don’t work, just start throwing people in jail already.
By its nature, the only penalties that can be applied to a corporate entity are fines or revoking its charter. The latter is what I had in mind when I wrote “or worse,” although I suppose piercing the corporate veil and going after the company’s executives personally is certainly an option too!
You can pierce the corporate veil. "What lawyer approved it? Who was responsible for putting that message there?”.
The corporation might not be able to be punished, but the actual people who did the thing can be.
The corporate veil for legal action only makes sense for a limited number of things that are problematic for the company but no person could really be expected to have directly made the choice.
Good to know… Is this only related to software hacking? Or is the warning sticker on hardware also bullshit?
The warning sticker on hardware is also bullshit.
The TL;DR of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is that if the manufacturer wants to deny your warranty claim, the burden is on them to prove that the owner’s “unreasonable use” (abuse), neglect of required maintenance, or modification of the product was the actual cause of the failure.
For example, a car manufacturer can’t use the fact that you tinted the windows as an excuse to deny your claim for an engine failure, but they could deny it for your failure to perform oil changes.
OP seems to be Austrian. I don’t think the FTC has anything to say about Austrian laws.
OP may or may not be Austrian, but is definitely behind seven proxies
OP is most certainly from a German speaking country based on the fact they wrote deinstall instead of uninstall, which is a false friend of the German word ‘deinstallieren’.
My banking app won’t work if I’m rooted and before that when I had developer mode on it wouldn’t work. Just gave me a error so I have the login to Firefox each time. I hate apps that block you because they can’t track you anymore
Banks that do this are just ignorant and hypocritical. Those same banks will let you log in from a web browser on the phone that is just as (un)likely to be compromised or from a desktop computer where you also have admin rights.
Whatsapp now refuses to work if your phone js rooted or you don’t have Gapps.
And I refuse to use WhatsApp, screw Facebook.
