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Yes, there's modules to fake SafetyNet but Google's really invested in it and it is kind of a losing battle on the side of the Xposed module writers[1][2]. (tl;dr It's quite a hassle to get a workaround on your phone and it's pretty trivial for Google to update SafetyNet.)

Xposed is a bit like torrents, jailbreaking, etc. A lot of people use it to pirate stuff or to cheat in games but there's also genuinly useful usage like:

• why does my banking app not allow me to take a screenshot?

• root permissons for Greenify and Amplify so I can make my battery last for days

• better privacy management than what Google only recently implemented

[1] https://phoneia.com/google-updated-safety-net-and-there-is-n...

[2] http://phandroid.com/2016/08/30/chainfire-suhide-root/



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