Bank account requiring Google play account, how to bypass ?
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That's insane. And it seems perhaps like an ugly case of integration gone wrong. Are you able to Use the website and add a bookmark to the website onto your phone's home screen or something?
That might bypass any app-based logins.
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Either use the website if it's possible or switch banks. Those are about your only two options.
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That's what I ended up doing. I don't want any of that shit in my daily driver.
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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.
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If you're really going to stick to aurora or avoid gplay (even a burner account for just your bank would be enough to help you out here), you're gonna be eventually stuck with web/telephone banking.
Anything else risks you getting flagged as suspicious by your bank, or at the very least opening your own attack surface to the same app by someone else.
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This is my strategy. If I can't bank on the website I find a new bank.
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So I read the comments, and it seems like you don't really want to switch banks, and the web interface to "too barebone".
My only suggestion is:
Download Shelter - You can create a separate "work profile" that separates from you normal apps. Create a new google account within the work profile just for this purpose, and intall the app in the work profile. Apps inside the work profile can't see anything on your normal profile.
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They won't care
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Same here. I had a bank where you could do most things from the website, but it turns out you couldn't do a few things without the app, and so I got rid of them and got a new bank.
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Or get a google pixel with GrapheneOS and make a extra user profile for it.
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Try to use F-droid.
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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.
