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Only available for people who sell themselves to Google or pay the Apple premium. Well, one could say it's a gift so don't complain. No, it's paid by the taxpayers. And French/German taxpayer money should not be used to make citizens less free for the benefit of a US duopoly which has continuous problems to comply with EU legislation.

P.S. I am no longer affected. I benefited from a French/German youth program 45 years ago, which I am grateful for.

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Do you mean people owning phones?

Using the ticket requires to use a phone with either Google Play or an iPhone. Alternative phone firmware (degoogled Android, SailfishOS, etc.), paper tickets, smart cards or anything else are not supported.

Eurail/Interrail Rail Planer is available as XAPK/APK download, does this work on alternative phone firmware?

From the seller? It wasn't when I checked many months ago, when they had special Interrail campaign with flexible dates for app users but only fixed dates for paper tickets.

Of course there are unofficial sites. But firstly I would not trust that their APKs are unmodified and secondly I would not rely on it that it works with a ticket for 300 Euros or so. Some tamper/rooting detection might still trigger in an alternative firmware. Well, the youth ticket doesn't cost anything, but see above why that's not an excuse.

so what

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