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UBS bank mandates their "Secure Access" app as second factor even when logging in from a desktop. They used to allow the smart card reader for existing customers that had it as a work around for a few years but they disabled that.

Also many websites are making it remarkably hard to not use the app if they even remotely sense you're not on an actual PC. FB and LinkedIn aren't banks but prime examples.



Then don't be a sheep and don't use Facebook or LinkedIn. They are notorious mass surveillance networks.


Good reason to stop using that bank.

I like my credit union.


Oh, and of course the stock app will refuse to run on rooted (or sometimes even just not widely used) phones.




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