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[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Just go full boomer and call them for everything. Tell them you don't want an app to do it. Make them waste resources.

[–] innermachine@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

Not me calling to check my balance on a daily basis XD

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

I'm gonna take this opportunity to also point out that a lot of major banks' online banking portals are actual dogwater. I have a credit union account and it is almost hilarious to me how well made their online portal is because it actually loads fast and doesn't throw errors every 5 seconds probably because they hired a qualified dev to make it with a solid HTML/CSS base and not a bloated JS framework hell PWA.

Unlike a certain penny colored bank site that can't even handle my auto filled password and complains I need to enter the already filled input box.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 167 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The irony is that the app will just be a wrapper for a webview, with extra data harvesting.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...and civil action if you try to reverse engineer or circumvent the app in any way... because the app's code is copyrighted. If you do it for someone else or make a post explaining how you did it things can get really spicy. Lord help you if you profit commercially from it.

Yay DMCA, in particular Section 1201!

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So far, AFAIK, the "must use app to bank" problem is happening only outside the US where the DMCA doesn't apply.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

It was actually forced onto the US by a clever US politician, Bruce Lehman - the Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Commissioner of Patents and Trademarks under Bill Clinton, who pushed it into an international treaty, the WIPO Copyright Treaty. Europe also approved the treaty and I assume the European counterparts still stand.

The WIPO Copyright Treaty is implemented in United States law by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). By Decision 2000/278/EC of 16 March 2000, the Council of the European Union approved the treaty on behalf of the European Community. European Union Directives which largely cover the subject matter of the treaty are: Directive 91/250/EC, creating copyright protection for software; Directive 96/9/EC on copyright protection for databases; and Directive 2001/29/EC, prohibiting devices for circumventing "technical protection measures", such as digital rights management (also known as DRM).

Maybe it isn't so thoroughly abused over there though. Poor Europeans lack the highly sought after freedom (to lose all of your rights to mega-corporations) we enjoy in the USA.

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

We can still reverse engineer as long as it’s for compatibility for example. So building a FOSS app after reverse engineer the other one is fine. Especially if that bank doesn’t support your device.

It’s still probably violating terms and stuff so they could just terminate your account.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

So would reverse engineering and building a modifed version of an app, so that you prevent it from doing things you don't want it to do, be legal?

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

From what I understand from lawyers yes. Unless you want to sell it or something. But IANAL

[–] grue@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I was aware of the treaty and its role in circumventing the democratic process, but was not aware that the anti-cirvumvention bullshit was part of it.

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The EU laws may not be worded so horrendously. I'm barely familiar with EU law beyond a little of the GDPR.

[–] bowsertattoo@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago

easier to switch banks than sign up for a new app tbh

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 75 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The day my bank does that, they have at least one customer less 🤷

[–] lettruthout@lemmy.world 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you have a credit union in your area I encourage you to check it out. They often are more humane.

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 7 points 1 day ago

Often but not always our credit union got rid of all in person tellers and now they just have a few people doing a tela teller

[–] emb@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yup!

Good excuse to switch banks. Every once in a while you can get some kind of sign-on bonus for the trouble too.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

ok. I'd like to close my account.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago

Remember: if you leave your bank for this reason, make it known to them and to your friend circle. Encourage them to move to wherever you end up, and tell the bank why. Let's make a pointless stink about it as we get our friends to safety.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'd change banks but I wouldn't be using a bank to start with. Co-op credit union or GTFO.

[–] sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Credit Unions are one of the many things (like bidets, buckwheat pillows, etc.) that you hear about, but don't really know what you're missing until you use them.

[–] neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 23 hours ago

As someone who kept their money possibly buried in various hidden locations up until some time in the past. What am I missing out on by using a bank now instead of a credit union?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

not a fan of credit unions after a local one was caught embezzling money from account holders.

you can always trust a liar, and that's why I trust local community banks.

I mean, by that reasoning you shouldn't use a bank either because so many of them have fraudulent history.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

10/10 can confirm

Credit Unions are the fuckin' best.

[–] wizbiz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 day ago

Time to leave that bank. Hopefully to a credit union

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 28 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't do any banking via an app. It's only from my desktop, never my phone. If they required an app, I'd change banks.

[–] Dultas@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Only thing I use the app for is online deposit. Everything else I can do 10x faster in a browser.

[–] starlinguk@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago

Mine did that years ago. But when you change your address, you have to go to the webpage, which tells you to use the app, which only links to the webpage, which opens the app...

Anyway, I had to ring them.

[–] Korne127@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Then discontinue the bank.

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

The app my bank wants me to use is no longer supported on my older phone model. So I'm closing my account with them. Fuck em.

[–] northernlights@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

I bet when you get a new phone and reinstall the app and login, it asks you to answer the prompt in the (previous) app. MS Authenticator did that to me yesterday.

[–] MantisToboggon@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

How else would they monetize your data? You need to think of the poor banks!

[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 day ago

time to switch banks

[–] ZAP@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I believe that this is going to be the standard- like it or not.

Official apps are promoted by many security experts as they are a lot safer than the website.

Some kind of regulation should still be applied crucial banking software shouldn’t be spying software also.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But they really aren't any safer.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It’s possible to provide device attestation and/or passkey through web browsers.

They just don’t want to.

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

oh god no, we are better off while that technology does not exist. device attestation might add some security, but do you know what else it does? takes away device ownership, entirely, by deciding for you what specific tracking ridden operating system you must use.

[–] HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

Could it work if you had a banking VM? A little annoying to have to spin up another one in proxmox but not the end of the world

[–] ZAP@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I’m not techy enough to be able explain the whole rationale nevertheless to my understanding one thing is that the apps prevent pishing / fake login pages.

I have read news where people access banking from fake websites and lose money because of that. To my understanding it is pretty common way to lose money by accessing “bank” through fake sms etc.

For generic not tech oriented customers app will remove this worry and these people are probably 90% of the bank’s customers

[–] xtr0n@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Someone who clicks a random SMS to open a webpage for their bank isn’t going to go “wait, shouldn’t this have opened the app instead?”

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

they will just install the fake app as well, right from the play store.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

"Safer" in this context meaning "a safer bet for the bank's ability to reliably undermine your control of your device".

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The app my bank wants me to use is no longer supported on my older phone model. So I'm closing my account with them. Fuck em.

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 6 points 1 day ago

Don't you guys have [flagship] phones?