Banking app requires chrome to function

Using /e/OS Applications
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For the last 5 months my banking app does not work because it requires that the default browser on the phone to be Chrome.

My default browser is Brave.

I do not see why I should be forced to use Chrome to get my banking app to work.

I have already contacted my bank and complained that their app should work with any browser. I do not expect my bank will change their app because of my complaint.

I consider my banking app to be an essential app on my phone.

What is the solution to this problem ?

Is /e/os going to develop a workaround ?

Is it possible to run the banking app in a sandbox on /e/os ?

Ive heard that Louis Rossman could not buy tickets for Swiss railways because their app also requires Chrome.

Is this the end of privacy phones ?

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This is weird indeed!

Do you get the same ultimatum if you switch to another browser? Firefox or DuckDuckGo browser for example?

Also, what do the people at Brave say about that?

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That is a bank that I would not use.

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Same demand if i use Murena /e/os browser.

I did not contact Brave

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The only option seems to change bank.

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In the case of Boursourama this workaround was offered [LIST] Banking Apps on /e/OS - #481 by AudeM

You would need to be specific about the bank and Report an issue before expecting

Any fix would depend on a full understanding of the app and the appID (or name).

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I donā€™t know where you have seen this, but I can tell you itā€™s false.

I use their app (Mobile CFF) and I can buy tickets although I donā€™t have Chrome installed !

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I could switch to another bank, but the other bank could decide in 2 months from now to also make their app only work with Chrome

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The app is ā€˜AIB Mobileā€™

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I can login to my bank with the app or using the stock eOS browser. Have you tried using the browser to see what happens?

I always thought the app(s) were browser independent.

Edit: You are trying to open you bank app in the browser it sounds like. Do they not offer their own app? I donā€™t understand if the issue is an app or just in browser?

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Did you now? They might be interested in this.

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You quote an App name which unusually is not unique. It is used by Allied Irish and Arab International banks.

Maybe you refer to an authentication method as part of the use of the app.

We have got to Post #12 and this thread is speculative.

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The other solution would be to contact the European commission and your member of parliament at EU to make them (more)aware of the importance to enforce open standards on:

  • app stores
  • push notification protocol
  • (any situation where a monopoly-standard naturally appears, second-hand adds, films, musics, etc)

As a consequence, private companies will realize that it is important commercially not to close their app on any system for wrongly assumed security justifications.

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It seems that the companies are also taken hostage by gā€‹:eyes:gle and apparently that bank have taken steps ahead: https://keepandroidopen.org/

Or your regulators whomever they are: Keep Android Open

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Which country AIB mobile? Do you have correct app?

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from 8:30 onwards

Thanks to everyone that responded to my issue. Any time I reply, Iā€™m told I have to wait 50 minutes before sending another reply. Very annoying. Iā€™ll try and respond individually.

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You can normally reply to multiple comments within your composing box.

Just quote a piece of text from the one, type your reply, and then with your composing box still open, scroll up to find the next comment you want to reply to.

When youā€™ve replied to everybody you want to reply to, hit the ā€œReplyā€ button to post it.

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It is the very first time I can hear anything like that and have been in banking for 35 years.

Isnā€™t there any confusion taking place - the app does not use browser - maybe we are talking about login into ā€˜fullā€™ OLB not the app version? I cannot grasp it where the browser comes into the equasion if we are talking the APP!? If you use email app for example you do not log into email on a browser, the same happens with banking - itā€™s either orā€¦ Maybe there is some miscommunication or misunderstanding? I just wonder.

It may be wrong country, but did You do that? :

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The guy in the video claims to be from Europe but he sure sounds like a North American, just saying.

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Might be from India! They make them learn different accents not to sound Indianā€¦ Quite appalling really!

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