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microtonaltoday at 6:03 PM2 repliesview on HN

If Wero is going to be similar to iDEAL, which it is based on, the payment flow will be through your bank's app. Heck, even the Wero app description says so:

The Wero app is available only for account holders from the German bank Postbank and the French bank La Banque Postale.

Are you a customer of another Wero-enabled bank? If so, you can easily use Wero within your banking app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.epicompany....

I have seen quite some people downloading their banking apps through the Aurora store (admittedly, it's a frontend for the Play Store, but you don't need an account or the app). Or you can use something like APKMirror and verify that they have the correct signing keys.

Of course, if they need Play Services or Play Integrity basic, then you need sandboxed Google Play or microG. If your bank does remote attestation through Play Integrity, then it is game over, but it is worth contacting your bank. E.g. some banks have added the GrapheneOS signing keys and added support for AOSP remote attestation.


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nh2today at 7:45 PM

Im a German with a German Postbank account, living in Switzerland.

Wero app Play Store page: "This item isn't available in your country."

Hard to cheer for a thing when it prevents you to access your own money, and promises to "easily pay" immediately fall flat.

Paypal is bad but at least it doesn't fail at step 0.

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sebtrontoday at 6:26 PM

I can pay with iDEAL without interacting with a smartphone, using only my laptop and a physical 2FA device provided by my bank. Do you know if this will be possible with Wero?

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