Well this sucks, I am locked out of online banking..
Due to EU regulations online banking cannot use SMS or paper authentication methods anymore, requiring the use of "secure" mobile applications instead. 🤦♂️
So now you need an Android or iOS running mobile phone to do tasks that a simple web browser was capable of before.
The new "app" is quite the disaster, contains ads, introduces fees and sometimes doesn't even work at all.
What an improvement! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=caixaeconomica.approva
Oh this is even worse than I thought.
- requires location access (won't work otherwise)
- transactions can use "push notifications", which basically means it goes through google servers, great security and privacy!
Since I do not have PlayStore on my phone, not sure what to do..
Using random apks from the internet seems like a terrible idea, even more for such crucial things as banking.
Obviously the application is not open-source, so won't make it to F-Droid or related services.
😦 😔 😞
@falktx Aurora store is it? There's a store that's a 'mirror's of the play store, it's in fdroid, maybe give that one a go?
@minkiu I use it to install stuff like spotify (until a nice opensource version comes up, or I get fed up with them again).
But I really do not trust that to handle online banking.
Plus some new phones also do not have Play Store, like new Huawei stuff. I have seen some kind of Amazon app store too, but no idea how many phones ship with that.
Relying on Apple or Google in order to provide online banking is just so terribly bad...
@falktx oh I 100% agree, it's insane, some banks just have apps, so it's even worse... it's quite depressing.