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We now come to the oblicatory question: Do banking apps work?
I don't use banking apps, there are few features necessary for an app, and they all havw trackers in them. I make PWAs and all my banks and credit card sites work just fine.
If your banking app does not work, use your banking website. If your banking doesn't allow you to use their website, switch banks, because that means they don't give a fuck about you, and probably want to make you use their app, because it has trackers in it.
You are not the first one to ask this, and you won't be the last, but I am so damn sick of people asking, will my fucking banking app work? Fuck your fucking banking app. Why are people so willing to compromise their security for a fucking banking app?
Nothing personal against you, by the way.
Your bank does not need to use the app trackers to spy on you. They already know everything important there is about you.
What the banks are worried about is fraud. Fraud costs them money. But the thing is, the app development cycles are long and complicated, and instead of a pragmatic approach, they just bolt on more and more obscure non deterministic authentication schemes and heuristic checks. That's why the app wants to know things like your location and access to the list of other installed apps, and simple username and password are not enough to let you through anymore.
The device attestation for them is probably just another checkbox to tick on the list of "at least we tried". Regardles of whether it's actually relevant for security. As long as it saves them more money that it costs them, there's no reason to not enable it.
I just did that and it's so simple
The EU has standards for security and banks require you to use a phone, and the banks don't give a fuck about outliers.
That's BS i'm in the EU and i can use homebanking.
Also most banks here still use SMS verification, so much for security.
Then just get yourself a really fucking cheap secondary phone that you only turn on when you need to verify your banking. And that's it. That way you can still verify your bank shit, but the spyware doesn't get to have always on access to your primary device.
You can check if yours work. Mine do, fortunately: https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compatibility-with-grapheneos/
That was also my biggest concern before switching to a degoogled custom rom. At least for me in germany i had no issues with any of my banking apps
Mine does, but I don't use it since hardware TAN generator.
I'm sure they'll do their best to not work (the banking apps)