Heath Ledger started banking here in the year 2000. Only movie producers have debit cards right and all actors are on a cash only basis and actors are cannibals that rob and eat their prey.

I mean you all weren’t ripping or watching Hollywood movies on the internet right? Because that’s just a cheap way for producers to store things so there isn’t giant dvd and vhs recording machines. Taking up space in print shops. Printing t shirts just went on because that blonde chick in ten things I hate about you did acting as a source of income and because it was an art but she preferred real art but didn’t see selling statues as a source of income or steady income. Sometimes large durable good purchases weren’t supported in capitalism. So it was T shirt printing and that genre of music that took place during those years. They’d all run around stabbing and killing all these other people as like a cult. The world was somewhat French back then.

And simulations are just used for movie production so that actors don’t miss their cues or start eating things and robbing and killing each other on the set.

Heath Ledger is kidnapped not dead, if he didn’t die as his stage name or other self then hepatitis b does this to him, and that’s why there was glucose in Mountain Dew and potassium in everything else as a preservative and no one could really eat natural foods or supposedly natural cheeses and butter. And that’s one thing I hate about you.

At least they now allow passwords over 8 characters (yes, serious).

Are you 100% certain they don't just truncate your password to 8 characters?

Magisk plus DenyList luckily works for my banks. Couldn't imagine not having a rooted phone.

I hate this so much!

My bank is like that and another horrible thing is that after you choose your password (which can be long and complex) you need to choose a 6 DIGIT restore code incase you forgot your password...

Why is is my BANK so bad at security??

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The app for my bank DNB (Norway) doesn't work on my LineageOS phone, but it works on my GrapheneOS phone. I wonder if they've added the graphene keys, because it just suddenly started working a while ago, though might be some GrapheneOS magic

With the PNC bank I use, about 12 years ago, passwords used to be case insensitive, and they would allow ridiculously insecure passwords without complaining, like one123. I had a ridiculous password like that for a while because it was funny, then realized I'd be the one to pay for it.

I didn't try a rooted phone, but thankfully my banking app did work on my phone with custom ROM without SafetyNet.

But they do block some VPNs. I know it temporarily didn't work with ProtonVPN, though now it does again. They only told me that they allow VPNs which they consider secure, but for security purposes they won't reveal how those considerations are done.
How would that make it insecure, if they aren't just using pre-made IP blocklists?
Anyway, that was a painful experience.
Getting it to work after being to connected to VPN required de-activation and re-activation of the app. That's a fairly painful process since it uses OTP tokens generated by a card reader:

It does have a digital version, but that's less secure.

Banks do this because most people don’t know how to use technology and it’s a lot easier to get remote access and malware on your computer than your phone.

My bank luckily just slaps me with a huge warning screen every time I open the app.

Magisk Hide + app rename works most of the time, for those with rooted phones

Even worse still: many online banking services require you to connect to Google, basically through the back end captcha system. You never have to solve the puzzle or click on traffic lights, but they do still associate you and your web browser with having an account with that bank.

However also, you can often use root with banking apps, you just have to set it up right. Configure Magisk to operate in the Zygisk domain with a deny list, and add the apps to that.

My dyslexic ass read that as "Baking apps" and i was genuenly confused.

My credit union's web site looks like a MySpace page. They don't even offer freaking 2FA. Been meaning to transition to cash management account but such a PITA.

Google and the banks can eat my whole asshole.

Doesn't work because of Play Integrity API but there are ways to bypass it. At least for now. Look up PlayIntegrityFork.

This post is against Rule 6, but I'll leave it up this time since there are a decent amount of discussion here now.

lseif@sopuli.xyz, please remove the image when you can. You can post it in the comments.

Honestly, screw apps that do this. It's pathetic.

This is actually something I have spent a lot of time thinking about. In Sweden, where my boyfriend lives, their BankID app is ubiquitous, and there is very little cash handling going on, additionally the fees for actually going to the bank or subsidiary to pay your bills are exorbitant.

Everybody pays their bills online using "BankID", which is kinda nifty and works well enough if a single point of failure is your thingaling, but what if people simply choose not to get a phone, or don't want a computer, just basic like that, what if?

It feels kind of creepy to me, I don't know...

Get new bank

Your banks still have offices? Cool!

Ok fine no banks it is then.