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I’m not even so sure I’m totally against banks doing that either.

From where I sit right now, I have within arms reach my MacBook, a Win11 Thinkpad, a half a dozen Raspberry Pis (including a 400), 2 iPhones only one of which is rooted, an iPad (unrooted) a Pinebook, a Pine Phone, and 4 Samsung phones one with its stock Android7 EOLed final update and three rooted/jailbroken with various Lineage versions. I have way way more devices running open source OSen than unmolested Apple/Microsoft/Google(+Samsung) provided Software.

My unrooted iPhone is the only one of them I trust to have my banking app/creds on.

I’d be a bit pissed if Netflix took my money but didn’t run where I wanted it, but they might be already, I only ever really use it on my AppleTV and my iPad. I expect I’d be able to use it on my MacBook and thinkpad, but could be disappointed, I’d be a bit surprised if it ran on any of my other devices listed…

>>bigiai+(OP)
Putting a banking app on your pocket surveillance device is one of the least secure things you can do. What happens if you're mugged, forced to login to your account, and then based on your balance it escalates to a kidnapping or class resentment beatdown? Furthermore, what happens if the muggers force you to transfer money and your bank refuses to roll back as unauthorized because their snake oil systems show that everything was "secure" ?

>>bigiai+(OP)
> I’m not even so sure I’m totally against banks doing that either.

The hole in this reasoning is that you don't need the app; you can just sign into the bank's website from the mobile browser, and get all the same functionality you'd get from the app. (Maybe you don't get a few things, like mobile check deposits, since they just don't build features like that into websites for the most part.) The experience will sometimes be worse than that of the app, but you can still do all the potentially-dangerous things without it. So why bother locking down the app when the web browser can do all the same things?

> I’d be a bit pissed if Netflix took my money but didn’t run where I wanted it

I actually canceled my HBO Max account when, during the HBO Now -> HBO Max transition, they somehow broke playback on Linux desktop browsers. When I wrote in to support, they claimed it was never supported, so they weren't obligated to care. I canceled on the spot.