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However, if on LineageOS, which mind you is the only way to get updated (and thus safer) android versions in many devices, they simply block you.

Awful.

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The announcement is very funny in that regard, devices with last update in 2023 like the Galaxy S10 are still ok despite having every root exploit under the sun available but god forbid you want to update it to the last version

LineageOS has no AVB support at all unfortunately and most devices don't allow using verified boot with custom keys anyways. With GrapheneOS they can just add GrapheneOS public keys (https://grapheneos.org/attestation.json).

For LOS Roblox would have to disable hardware attestation completely, which means you can easily just add extra modules such as a setuid binary which makes cheating easy (at least on the client side, you'd have to rely completely on server side anti cheating)

https://eylenburg.github.io/android_comparison.htm

While that is true the bigger issue is that LineageOS doesn't qualify for "They do not break the AOSP security model" as it allows users to get root access without modifying the OS. So even if there was verified boot Roblox would still block it.

For me this means that Roblox's requirements are fundamentally incompatible with any device I would want to use as they want to restrict my access and I want full access.

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