My nearly-bank (until I found out they dont work without Google and their cards are not unlockable for a human being) GLS has an old app, based on some generic banking app banks used in the past “GLS mBank” which is ⅒ of the size of the new, bloated “GLS Banking”.
And they rely on big brother Volksbank, and they depend on another provider “Atruvia” for “security magic sauce” whose proprietary 2FA garbage app “Securego Plus” blocks me when using a VPN, of course without a message.
As far as I understand it, Atruvia is actually owned by the umbrella organisation of all cooperatively owned banks in Germany.
So if I have the choice I would rather give my money to a bank that I and everyone else who has a bank account partially owns than to some corporation.
“Telemetry”
Most likely use of insanely bloated libraries.
My nearly-bank (until I found out they dont work without Google and their cards are not unlockable for a human being) GLS has an old app, based on some generic banking app banks used in the past “GLS mBank” which is ⅒ of the size of the new, bloated “GLS Banking”.
And they rely on big brother Volksbank, and they depend on another provider “Atruvia” for “security magic sauce” whose proprietary 2FA garbage app “Securego Plus” blocks me when using a VPN, of course without a message.
I hate banks so much.
As far as I understand it, Atruvia is actually owned by the umbrella organisation of all cooperatively owned banks in Germany.
So if I have the choice I would rather give my money to a bank that I and everyone else who has a bank account partially owns than to some corporation.
I dont have the GLS or Volksbank App though.