After a recent forced update, I can no longer login to my bank account, the app brings up google play and expects me to login to gplay for what ever reason,I am not logged into that cancer on my phone, so now I am fuming and don’t want to be forced to make a google account on the phone. (by the way I have been using aurora to avoid gplay)
I am hoping someone has a some trick or app to bypass this ? I have talked to the bank but there is nothing they can do for just one weird customer !
Everything is going to shit in this dystopian technocracy
Only way to bypass this is by not using the app.
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Change banks.
This is the answer.
And make sure they know exactly why you left
They won’t care
Techno bureaucracy https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=H8qrbwfhtn4 / https://youtu.be/H8qrbwfhtn4
There not much options here first old project twoji which android container basically or graphenos(voltageos which have same features as granhenos but for many other phones ) which make in container google apps
My bank app entirely disabled itself because they “detected” that I use a modified OS. I only use web since then.
Nobody should be using a bank which requires a mobile app in the first place. iOS is proprietary closed-source software and FOSS Android-based OSs likely won’t work because of the the SafetyNet lockdown.
We do not currently have decent privacy on mobile, period. If you can’t do everything on the web, change bank.
BTW I did just this myself. Opened a Revolut account and then closed it after discovering that the web app was not fully functional. Here in Europe at least, I believe Revolut is exceptional in its obnoxious attitude to user privacy.
If you can’t do everything on the web, change bank.
And to be clear, make sure you can do everything on a web site. Not a Chrome site.
GrapheneOS is both secure and private. It also supports hardware based attestation (No need for SafetyNet). It’s just that mediocre people who develop these apps do not wish to support freedom respecting platforms.
Absolutely. There remains the small issue that Graphene only works on devices made by a certain purveyor of mass-surveillance spyware.
And? Its the only hardware that let’s you relock the bootloader with a custom OS. Blame other hardware manufactures for not supporting that feature.
De-Google your life by purchasing Google hardware! What could possibly go wrong?
Which shitty bank is this?
Yes, warn us who to avoid.
*whom
Oh my god who gives a shit
At least two other people and I, clearly.
Try to use F-droid.
Change bank.
Don’t use the app.
very hard to change the bank when alot of payment accounts are linked to it.
they have moved most of the features to the app the web portal is very barebone.
It may be hard and take time, but it sounds like it would be worth at least starting the process and slowly take steps to move. If they’ve done this, what’s the likelihood that they’ll do something even worse later?
my concern is what if after all the hassle the next bank pulls the same act ? and the next one !
“my concern about leaving my abusive partner is what if after all the hassle the next one pulls the same act ? and the next one !”
There are many banks and (better yet) credit unions. Not all of them are awful. Be brave. Take action.
That’s a valid concern.
My bank did the same… except not really. A bunch of functions still opens in the browser, but you can only get to them via the app, not directly using just the browser.
Another option for you would just be “buy a secondhand cheap phone for banking and nothing else”
That’s what I ended up doing. I don’t want any of that shit in my daily driver.
What are a lot of payment accounts?
If I had too many services I pay for, I’d try reducing that as well. Less is more for me.
Acting on your principles isn’t always easy.
very hard to degoogle your phone/life. sounds like youre willing to put some work in…
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Or get a google pixel with GrapheneOS and make a extra user profile for it.
Why install an app when you can just use the bank’s website?
they have moved most of the features to the app, the web portal is very bare bone.
Sounds like a shitty bank.
I have this problem too… I use LineageOS with GPlay Store disabled and my bank’s app worked perfectly for a couple of years. Since a couple of months ago, I need to have GPlay Store enabled to be able to use it.
I’ve tried putting my Google account into Aurora Store and so far it works.
Making a work profile using Insular or something? Or maybe create a different user?
I believe you can still access internet-banking, without the need for an app?
Maybe, setup MicroG. If the your bank app just redirects you to google play store app, I think Aurora Store might be able to fool it, considering you disable or remove GPlay using
adbor something.Buy a cheap second hand phone just for those apps and leave it at home… That way if you lose your phone you are not locked out
