Bank account requiring Google play account, how to bypass ?
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Complain to your bank, obviously.
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Change bank.
Don't use the app.
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I did, doesn't change a thing, I have no power to influence what they add into their app
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Techno bureaucracy https://invidious.perennialte.ch/watch?v=H8qrbwfhtn4 / https://youtu.be/H8qrbwfhtn4
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Why install an app when you can just use the bank's website?
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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.
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Sadly the only power you have is to switch banks, and let them know when you close your account why. I switched from Ally to Aspiration partially because of this.
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Only way to bypass this is by not using the app.
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they have moved most of the features to the app, the web portal is very bare bone.
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What are a lot of payment accounts?
Sounds like reducing that amount could be good for you as well.
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Acting on your principles isn’t always easy.
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Sounds like a shitty bank.
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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?
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Which shitty bank is this?
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my concern is what if after all the hassle the next bank pulls the same act ? and the next one !
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Separate cancer phone that you only use on WiFi would be my guess, short of the oft cited switching banks. Alternate could be to put payments all on a card and only use the card issuer's site to make payments to them so you don't have to directly interact with the bank.
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That's a valid concern.
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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.
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"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.
