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Consider many apps are just webpages. You can go to the website directly from a browser and everything is happy.
Obviously won't solve everything, but that covers most apps right there.
That's yet another trend that's made me less and less interested in things. You're not wrong though and will likely be my fall back
A lot of people cry about banking apps not working on phones that have been rooted/degoogled/whatever. But seriously, just use their website. The app is usually just a front end for the site anyway.
Sure I can use my bank's website (and it's a shit experience) but they still want me to have their own app for authentication... Don't even offer anything else at this point.
Mobile check deposit is about the only perk to the apps
That's a good point.
My credit union site doesn't scale to mobile screens unfortunately. It is a massive pain in the ass to use the browser
Correction, looks like they finally updated it a few months ago to scale.
and if you don't use the app, they'll force you to pay for second factor code SMSs each and every time you log in.
Who's still being charged per SMS in 2025? Is that still a thing somewhere?
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