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Not sure if this is a good place for this post or not, but here goes.

I reject outbound connections to meta domains at the firewall. I noticed this banking app refuses to prompt for login credentials unless I am on mobile or a public WiFi network. I watched my FW logs and noticed many rejected connections to graph[.]facebook[.]com.

I contacted their support team, but they denied the connection was their app. I shared the screenshot on this post and they closed my case without comment.

I emailed the address on the Google play store and they also denied the connection was their app. I shared the screenshot and they asked if I downloaded the app from the play store, implying the official app doesn't do this, but of course it does.They closed my case without proper resolution as well.

Just thought I'd share this here so people know that some banks make direct connections to Facebook to share analytics, without your knowledge or informed consent, and they lie about it when called on it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Something else is going on with your setup, I block graph.facebook.com via DNS too and Ally works fine, both app and browser.

Your screenshot looks like you're also blocking ntp.org which could definitely screw with a banking app, and launchdarkly.com may also be the problem if they're loading assets from that service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

LaunchDarkly essentially just serves up true/false values for services to grab. It can be useful to update code functionality without having to rebuild / recompile. However, any service that uses the launch darkly API should have a default state for their values to fall back on, so it shouldn't cause any major issues if LaunchDarkly can't be reached.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So I just tested this. I'm not at home so I had to VPN in which is no issue.

  • I opened graph.facebook.com and confirmed it was working
  • I opened and logged in to my Ally app
  • I added graph.facebook.com to my pi-hole's black list as a regex entry
  • I opened graph.facebook.com in the browser and confirmed it was blocked
  • I force closed and cleared the cache on my Ally app
  • I opened and logged in to my Ally app

It's not the Meta connection that's giving you trouble.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

FYI this is why you DON'T use the banking app. Use a browser and I guarantee you won't have this issue. Phone apps are mostly all adware bullshit at this point. Use as few apps as you possibly can. Your life will be better because of it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

File a complaint with the government. I’m not sure which agency, but there is definitely one for that.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Not in the US there isn't