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Written by monovergent 🛠️ on 2024-08-08 at 21:38

How crucial are banking apps? Your experience with them vs. browser banking?

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Written by QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world on 2024-08-08 at 21:43

Notifications and Mobile Deposit are the 2 features from banking apps that I find compelling.

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Written by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 2024-08-08 at 21:45

Can’t do anything about mobile deposits, but for notifications, you could get the notifications emailed to you and your email app has push notifications.

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Written by MotoAsh@lemmy.world on 2024-08-08 at 22:28

I mean, they could offer it through the browser. All modern browsers have more than enough hooks and permissions control to do something as simple as take a couple pictures and make a basic request to a back end.

Though making nice things costs money, so…

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Written by shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 2024-08-08 at 22:40

Oh, of course they could do so, but they won’t do it because they want you to use their app. They want you to use their app because they control it and can mine data from it more so than on a web browser. Take Cime, for example. It has all kinds of Google trackers in it.

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Written by adarza@lemmy.ca on 2024-08-08 at 22:43

i worked on someone’s laptop recently that was set up for mobile deposits via web browser. they also had a bank-provided scanner, too, that worked with it. so it is possible, and it is being done.

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