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People always bring up online banking, and its so fascinating to me; I've basically always (since 2010 at least) done banking online using mobile web. Are there any institutions that require using an app? For one of my institutions, the app is just a wrapper around the mobile site anyway.

I made the switch to GrapheneOS recently and its been quite pleasant overall, relative to expectations.

Everything else just works, barring notifications for some apps and things that are obviously Google-oriented (e.g. google camera). Also, location is seriously degraded, because it actually _only_ works with GNSS, as far as I can tell.

I've been making the switch to sites pinned to home screen for things that aren't useful offline (banking, weather) and that's been working well, but largely unnecessary. I just really don't trust Android apps generally.




> Are there any institutions that require using an app?

Yes, there are. In order to log into Revolut web UI you need to confirm your login through their app.

There are many other examples but so far I didn't find any single banking app which doesn't work on MicroG.

From what I've heard russian Sberbank doesn't work without safetynet though.


I have bank accounts with many banks and all but one require an app. It acts as a security dongle amongst other things.


When your bank forces you to use insecure devices and support duopoly, you should complain and find a better one.


Good luck finding a better bank among 3 (three, effectively as two are leaving soon) banks operating in Ireland.




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