Phones and apps forced on you (was: Google will no longer send SMSs with six digit codes for verification)

"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> wrote or quoted:

Going against the times not wanting to use a mobile phone is not going
to work for anybody.

  Well, I'm using a mobile phone. But my security concept involves
  not putting an SMS into it and not connecting it to the internet.
  Also, since my youth, I'm used to the idea that it's my computer,
  so I decide which software to run on it.

  (I'm using the phone to make photos, read PDFs, and semi-manually
  track my sleep, calculate the recommendation for next sleep, etc.)

  Now, a bank told me I need a photo TAN. Do you know what I thought?
  I thought that they were asking me to make a photo of my face right
  before each transaction maybe with a newspaper of the day or in a
  position only given right before the transaction.

  But no, the "photo TAN" does not involve sending a portrait photo of
  yourself to your bank!

  I think I'm going to buy an extra phone, I might call the "dirty phone".
  This will be used for all third party apps I am being forced to use
  and get an SMS card when needed.