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I wonder how these gate agents will react if I show their app throwing a hissy fit and refusing to work when it is blocked from any data mining. No permissions, no google play services, no safetynet, maybe no network. It is non cooperation with their bs, but it looks like a technical issue. And, if it can work without such things, then I hate it much less.

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Why should they care? Without presenting a boarding pass you can't even approach the gates, cannot pass security check.

And you cannot get a boarding pass without an app.

I just installed it on a fresh profile in GrapheneOS.

Blocked from any access except network, and it didn't even try to check Play Integrity API. Works okay. Didn't have a chance to check in/display boarding pass, but I could access all the details of my flight no problem.

Thank you for checking that. Last time I used it, I was pleasantly surprised that they didn't use android's screenshot prevention to stop you making a copy of the boarding pass. I took a screenshot as a backup in case I had issues with the app.

When you do this they charge you the human assist fee and boarding pass fee or you don't board.

I'd probably pay the fee, take my flight, then charge it back with a reason like "Fee for not using app, app did not work. Fee advertised as optional was not, in fact, optional for me". Completely true statement.

You would win but then Ryanair would ban you from flying with them in the future.

I don't know about Ryanair, but I've had to reverse credit card transactions due to scams a few times and I've never been banned from other businesses.

Ryanair has a history of banning people who dispute charges.

Probably thats the goal, so there is a way to charge a fee. Do you not know Ryanair

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