Comment by liendolucas
21 hours ago
Yes, but that can be simply solved by the banking app to re-ask for the PIN instead of directly declining to take the screenshot.
If it asks me again my PIN when I'm about to hit "transfer" when sending money, there should be no problem in doing the same for the screenshot.
Instead at least my banking app forces me to navigate through an unfamiliar menu and donwload a PDF. A waste of time compared to taking a screenshot.
Some do that, and it's super annoying. I take a screenshot, and then silently my login doesn't work, with a weird error returned instead. Get another PIN, type it in, take a screenshot before submit, again get a nondescript error that makes no sense.
Don't they star the PIN in any case?
Why exactly is me taking a screenshot of my signup process for my records suddenly a disqualifier for signing up?
If all these companies never lied to us about the terms of the deals we're signing up for, needing proof of what actually happened, we'd never be taking these screenshots.
Honestly, this whole "security" theatre ought to be investigated by the consumer protection agencies, and any app that prevents screenshots being taken, or gives these nondescript errors when someone takes it and is subsequently unable to sign-in, should be fined for their anti-consumer behaviours.