The irony is that the app will just be a wrapper for a webview, with extra data harvesting.

The day my bank does that, they have at least one customer less 🤷

easier to switch banks than sign up for a new app tbh

I don't do any banking via an app. It's only from my desktop, never my phone. If they required an app, I'd change banks.

Time to leave that bank. Hopefully to a credit union

Mine did that years ago. But when you change your address, you have to go to the webpage, which tells you to use the app, which only links to the webpage, which opens the app...

Anyway, I had to ring them.

Remember: if you leave your bank for this reason, make it known to them and to your friend circle. Encourage them to move to wherever you end up, and tell the bank why. Let's make a pointless stink about it as we get our friends to safety.

Then discontinue the bank.

ok. I'd like to close my account.

How else would they monetize your data? You need to think of the poor banks!

time to switch banks

I'd change banks but I wouldn't be using a bank to start with. Co-op credit union or GTFO.

Just go full boomer and call them for everything. Tell them you don't want an app to do it. Make them waste resources.

I bet when you get a new phone and reinstall the app and login, it asks you to answer the prompt in the (previous) app. MS Authenticator did that to me yesterday.

The app my bank wants me to use is no longer supported on my older phone model. So I'm closing my account with them. Fuck em.

I believe that this is going to be the standard- like it or not.

Official apps are promoted by many security experts as they are a lot safer than the website.

Some kind of regulation should still be applied crucial banking software shouldn’t be spying software also.

I'm gonna take this opportunity to also point out that a lot of major banks' online banking portals are actual dogwater. I have a credit union account and it is almost hilarious to me how well made their online portal is because it actually loads fast and doesn't throw errors every 5 seconds probably because they hired a qualified dev to make it with a solid HTML/CSS base and not a bloated JS framework hell PWA.

Unlike a certain penny colored bank site that can't even handle my auto filled password and complains I need to enter the already filled input box.