Re:My small revenge on Apple
by AshamedCaptain on Wednesday August 04, 2021 @05:18AM
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Competition is no longer possible these days, as banks, towns, etc. start to require an _unrooted_ Android/iOS device for basic operations (e.g. authorization of credit card operations, paying taxes and fines, COVID stuff, etc.).
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Agreed. I tried to get a hardware-based TAN generator from my bank because that's the official alternative, but they indicated as long as I don't do 10k transactions a day I "don't need one". But I did need one, lacking an up-to-date smartphone and a Windows/Mac PC.
They were also baffled that I wanted more than 5 digits as login PIN (without username) for the banking app.
At least here in Germany, there are many banks that work fine on rooted devices. And outside of banking and Google Pay, I haven’t seen anything that won’t work on rooted devices.
The rest of your comment, I sadly agree with.
Re:My small revenge on Apple
by AshamedCaptain on Thursday August 05, 2021 @05:49AM
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Up until a couple weeks ago, my French bank's program worked on rooted devices. No longer. Same thing happened with my previous bank a year or so ago. They removed SMS 2FA as an alternative at the same time.