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1. Helmut+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-07-27 10:20:19
I really hate it - banks are already so inaccessible these days that it is a nightmare. Why isn't there a read-only key that I can use to programmatically and automatically pull transactions? I need to login though third-party OTC apps from an "unmodified" mobile phone (I only bought for banking, which I consider as e-waste the other 99% of time), download the proprietary PDFs, process them in some custom and complex Python code I hacked together, to finally extract the information into a proper usable format.

Just think about it: I really conceptualized how I can hook my Android phone to my server, add a digital camera to photograph the OTP-Code, OCR it and have a docker based Selenium script with chromedriver to login to my bank to pull the PDFs. All that just because big banks can afford to be so customer unfriendly.

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2. EGreg+Vl[view] [source] 2023-07-27 13:04:15
>>Helmut+(OP)
Well, perhaps it will drive adoption of Web3 and permissionless decentralized open protocols — * ducks *

I mean — all this doom from HN about huge centralized corporations, about banks being inaccessible, but the moment you mention the only viable (at the moment) alternative — many people reach for their trusty downvote button.

I mean, with all the hate towards all alternatives to trusting Big Tech corporations, with all the effort to actively bury any potential to build and improve decentralized systems, some of you deserve to live in a world controlled by large states and corporations. This would be your future dystopia, because you actively dismissed every alternative out of hand. But it won’t be your future — because many people outside of HN continue to build systems like MaidSAFE, IPFS and BitTorrent which do not have these restrictions. There are far better and nore scalable networks coming out that are beyond blockchain and beyond smart contracts that allow building backends which CAN’T discriminate against clients, and let anyone generate their own public-private keys. Even though you may hate on these technologies and downvote any post mentioning them, they’ll be there when you finally need them. You’re welcome!!

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