Curious to hear, do your banking apps also display full-screen ads when you log in?

I almost signed up for a stupid personal loan because I was in a hurry to make an online payment and ended up tapping on the ad instead!!

Is there a way to raise enough of a ruckus that can stop banks from displaying these sh*tty full-screen ads in their apps?

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@shrikant Mine is HDFC and it always shows random popups. Hate the archaic UI of the app.

@shibaprasad Archaic UI but at least 'snappier' than some of the other apps. And allows taking screenshots of payments made, which some of the other 'bigger' banks don't.

And the popups 'only' take up a small part of the screen. Sigh...

Yeah, HDFC is the smallest sh*t-sandwich among all the banking apps out there. The biggest pieces of t*rds are probably Stanchart and ICICI...

@shrikant Haha really? Had no Idea!

I have been exploiting Neo Bank ( Fi - Federal Bank) a lot! They are pretty neat.

@shibaprasad
I hope that was a typo and you meant 'exploring', haha!!

A little distrustful of neo-banks at the moment because I'm not clear of how (well) they are regulated. But I am planning to dip my toes cautiously in those waters soon...

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