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Everyone says their bank or doctor, or favorite restaurant, or whatever requires an app. It is basically NEVER true. You just have to insist you do not own a co
by lrvick 1y ago
Everyone says their bank or doctor, or favorite restaurant, or whatever requires an app. It is basically NEVER true. You just have to insist you do not own a compatible device and do not want one as you do not wish to accept the terms of service of Google or Apple, and/or say it is against your undisclosed religion. Works every time. Even at theme parks like Disney that insist you need an app for the map or fast pass... a manager can always override that requirement and give you the magic edge case privileges.
Source: Not had a cell phone carrier or carried a phone in 5 years and never been restricted from doing anything I did previously, as a frequently traveling tech business owner.
- u_sama 1y agoIn Europe, in order to be compliant with the new banking rules, you need to have a kind of external confirmation which is, ding ding ding your smartphone. You literally need to open your bank app in order to approve online transactions. And increasingly things are being digitalised thus you need will have an increasing need for smartphone because of such proposals. The alternative is that the bank sneds you a clunky OTP machine with a code every time you want to make a purchase or transaction.
- card_zero 1y agoOr SMS.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoIt seems another alternative is to build a scheme that works with a universal second factor like a yubikey.
- chrismorgan 1y agoI had cause to need WhatsApp a bit over a year ago: it requires a device that runs iOS, or Android with Google Play. I just assumed I could get past this, but the signup flow refused to run on LineageOS with MicroG via Waydroid on my laptop—wanted an authentic, Google-approved environment. Maybe that can be worked around; I don’t know. Subsequently you can run WhatsApp Web… but you can’t make calls that way, and if you don’t run it on an actual phone for two weeks, it’ll boot you.