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How crucial are banking apps? Your experience with them vs. browser banking? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 3 months ago by monovergent@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Banking apps seem to be a motif among things that don't play well with privacy ROMs. My bank's website does everything I could want out of it. I think I might be ignorant to something.

What about banking apps is especially compelling?
How often do banks put must-have features behind an app?
And should I be concerned that banks might move away from offering services through browsers?

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[–] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Notifications and Mobile Deposit are the 2 features from banking apps that I find compelling.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Can't do anything about mobile deposits, but for notifications, you could get the notifications emailed to you and your email app has push notifications.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I mean, they could offer it through the browser. All modern browsers have more than enough hooks and permissions control to do something as simple as take a couple pictures and make a basic request to a back end.

Though making nice things costs money, so...

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, of course they could do so, but they won't do it because they want you to use their app. They want you to use their app because they control it and can mine data from it more so than on a web browser. Take Cime, for example. It has all kinds of Google trackers in it.

[–] hydration9806@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bold of you to assume my email app has push notifications

A sad Proton user using a de-Googled device

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

Actually, I am in that exact same situation, so I know exactly what you're talking about.