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There's one group of Android users Google's new sideloading rules won't affect
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so you're selling your right to privacy and choice for the convenience of a...banking app?
you sound like a cheap date. wanna go grab some food from the dumpsters behind Arby's?
Please don't underestimate how fucked "modern" citizens are. Privacy is no longer an easy choice.
You might see a banking app (including phone-based payments, using the phone as a card or using a payment app) as mere convenience, and to a large degree it is, but aside from that there are also national ID apps that are simply impossible to live without in some EU countries. There are exceptions for seniors and disabled folk, but even they miss out on some critical social access that's just not realistic for eg. parents of school-age children.
the day I have to have a phone for an ID is the day I stop having a cellphone.
I already get wild looks when I tell people I don't have a Facebook. I can only imagine their heads exploding when I say I don't have a phone.
Well, seems I am not a privacy freak and I like to live my life as I see fit. Yet, my back knows everything about my life already so
it has nothing to do with your bank and everything to do with the company your bank used to whitelabel their app.
most banking apps are from a handful of companies. those companies scrape you for as much data as they can and sell it to other companies.
things like, balance, location, proximity to points of interest, length of time spent in points of interest, etc.
so you might be thinking you're just in bed with your bank, but your bank turned out the lights and has a camera streaming your private information to the highest bidder.
Well, thank you for letting me know, I guess my data is the price for that commodity.
At the end of the day life is one and there are other hills I am willing to die on rather than this one.