Felicitas PojtingerNew idea: Neobank specifically for digital sovereignty, from the app running on Linux/without SafetyNet and other nonsense to the servers running on local infrastructure
People need banking and payment apps to work on Linux mobile for it to work. Obviously to only real "fix" for this is a regulatory one that declares SafetyNet a monopolistic control mechanism, which it is.
But also, with fintech stuff getting easier and easier, I wonder if creating at least an open _banking_ app should be possible. Yes, various countries require push-based 2FA, but nothing locks you into Google/Apple here on Linux. I wonder how the payments situation would be ...
Clayton@felicitas.pojtinger.com do bank websites not work? I'm in the US, and all of the banks I use have websites that are at least *usable* on mobile devices without apps.
Rene Raggl 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 🇬🇱@craftyguy @felicitas.pojtinger.com Many European banks have shifted from separate TOTP hardware tokens ("identifiers") to making the use of their app mandatory to log into their website.
This severely limits accessibility from platforms should Google one day decide to fully block banking apps from working on alternative OSes like Graphene, eOS, Lineage, Sailfish or Linux on mobile.