With out oft world reasons you have to use their banking app and have to put in your mobile number and HAVE TO SYNC YOUR CONTACTS. At that point i cancled that shit.

[–] george@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You do not have to. At least iOS allows you to select if you want to give access to all contacts, specific contacts or no contacts at all.

It’s like many of the messaging apps: how would you be able to select to whom to send money if you don’t share the contacts

[–] kossa@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Like, put the phone number into a text field within the app? They don't need access to the address, the birth date, e-mail, whatever else I save about my contacts.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know nothing about WERO, but I guess they would want to at least limit payment requests to your contacts.

[–] polle@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

But why? If i want to exchange money for buying used stuft, i dont want to add them to my contacts first. But i think that every bank has its own App is far worse.

[–] Asinus@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago

In my banking-app you can type phone-numbers or e-mai-addresses without adding those to my contacts.

Since Wero is directly linked to the banking account I absolutely don't want to grant access to a third-part-app. Also I don't want yet another banking-app.

So every bank has its own app, but that app was preexisting and is only expanded by the wero-functionality. I guess behind the scenes there is some unified interface.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I thought wero is just a way to transfer money to family and friends. I just learned that it's a whole lot more, so letting anyone outside your contacts request and send payments makes sense. Although by now most registered phone numbers should appear in some breach/leak, which makes this kind of a stupid idea if I'm not mistaken. This also completely obliterates the need for syncing your contacts wtf lol.