The problem is that the website doesn’t allow some of the critical features that the app allows, such as depositing checks. IIRC there are a few things that I was trying to do–link accounts for payments, I think?–where I had to use the banking app.
Haven’t tried NewPipe yet. I currently use YouTube for specific videos, and I’m usually operating it from a private tab in my browser through a VPN, rather than the app. (So far I’m not getting served ads that way, although sometimes I have to skip to different countries to get around sign-in nags.)
Banking apps are the one thing that worries me. My prior bank didn’t allow rooted phones to be used for online banking; I haven’t made an attempt with my current phone. Given that I now live in a… Rather remote part of the country, access to online banking is fairly important.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9335287/
https://www.factcheck.org/2025/10/what-we-know-about-political-violence-in-america/
Any real analysis of actual rates of violence motivated by politics can see that, while left wing violence is apparently rising, that rise is from “extremely low/non-existent” levels to “barely a blip on the radar” levels when compared to right wing violence. Anyone making claims to the contrary is simply not being honest. The overwhelming majority of violence motivated by politics comes from the right, from neo-Nazi groups, from Oath Keepers, Proud Man-children, Threepers, and so on. Note that these are groups that are actually organized, have a command structure, funding, and so on. Compare this to ‘antifa’–which is short for anti-fascist, and if you aren’t anti-fascist, that makes you what?, pro-fascist?–which is barely organized (despite hysterical claims from Trump and his flunkies), has zero funding aside from the people bring with them, is non-hierarchical, has no meetings, and so on.
Disappointing.
I bought one of their phones nearly a year ago. The UI was… Not great, IMO, but I was able to re-skin it. The SD card slot was the biggest reason for me. Well, now I know taht my next phone is going to be a Pixel with Graphene installed.
…And what would Tails be?