Try "Shelter". It's available on F-droid. It's an app that lets you manage your phone's "Work Profile". I use it to house scummy corpo apps that I occasionally need, but don't want running all the time. From inside the work profile, HSBC shouldn't be able to see apps installed outside of it.
this post was submitted on 30 Dec 2025
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Updated 2 years ago. Is this abandoned or just simply a slow rate of progress?
It's a simple app that leverages a built in android feature and nothing more. I use it for the same reason as the guy above you. There's no updates to be made.
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I haven't kept up with the development side of it...
Clicking through the links on F-droid, their issue tracker (https://lists.sr.ht/~petercxy/shelter) is active as of three weeks ago. Author's github shows commits as of November 2024, and suggests a custom F-droid repository.
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Android as a platform is dead
We need Linux phones yesterday
Let me start by saying how stupid that is…. But, if I had to come up with a reason, it may be because Bitwarden can store passkeys which can then make them portable as opposed to device specific which technically is a security bypass.
I believe they are just indiscriminately checking for the installed source (an information available from Android). If the installed source is not from Google Play Store, it will attempt to block. In this case, app is installed from f-droid.
this is not just HSBC, a lot of Asian banks implemented this, likely as a reaction to the scam cases.
Yeah I would say almost assuredly they have seen scams abusing this enough to have to implement a countermeasure
Link is dead
He's just resting and will awaken when Hyrule needs him.
Not just hsbc lots of safenet settings have a blacklist of apps they won't run with ..
It can be avoided by installing those blacklist apps in different accounts profiles or private space
Basically safenet let's apps say they won't run if anything is side loaded or instead with a third party app store
Maybe this is their long term plan to kill other apps stores... Let banking apps be the bad guy by volunteering for a high "safety net" setting