Bank account requiring Google play account, how to bypass ?
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very hard to degoogle your phone/life. sounds like youre willing to put some work in...
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No power to influence it is incorrect. You do not have the power to change it. However, if you leave, you are a data point. If lots of people leave, they are also data points. Data influences decisions at most companies. This statement does not imply the data is read correctly, nor that the decisions made in light of the interpretation of the data are the best ones.
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And make sure they know exactly why you left
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Maybe switch to the web version?
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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.
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Absolutely. There remains the small issue that Graphene only works on devices made by a certain purveyor of mass-surveillance spyware.
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De-Google your life by purchasing Google hardware! What could possibly go wrong?
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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"
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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.
