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Comment by arielcostas

21 days ago

My Pixel phone warns me before allowing free installs (I refuse to call it "sideloading") from any app for the first time. And others like Xiaomi show (or used to show) a more prominent warning you had to read with the consequences, waiting at least 10 seconds to enable the option.

Plus the whole "banks need to protect you by ensuring your device" is stupid when cards are protected only by a PIN, and the app also requires some form of biometry to unlock it, which is to encrypt the underlying tokens. Banks should protect your money on their end, with clients having their responsibility to keep safe their stuff, whether that's their card or phone. It's a stupid premise itself, and it's lazy engineering.