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Re:Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepa... by w0m on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:29PM (#16861508)
> Plus I don't agree with a company keeping tabs on my financial transactions and then profiting from that data on my behalf.

You'll have that near equally as long as you do non-cash transactions unless you use your debit card from an equally privacy conscious institution (maybe a small town credit union? Until they got bought at least..).

Personally I've just accepted that my boring life is known to everyone and try and get the perks I can out of it; free trip once a year being about what I've managed to extract without much effort.

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Re:Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepa... by vanderZwan on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @04:50PM (#16862202)
That still does not address the "I don't agree with how they are ran"-concern.

There sadly is no US version of the Fair Finance Guide yet, but in the countries where it does exist it is a pretty good guideline for finding banks that align with your moral interests:

https://fairfinanceguide.org/

The Dutch one is the first version, and as a result also the most elaborate:

https://eerlijkegeldwijzer.nl/bankwijzer/themas/

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Re:Using GnuCash as a Freelancer to Track Finances and Prepa... by tracker1 on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @06:01PM (#16862704)
Doesn't matter where the debit card is issued, the relevant data still goes over the same network(s), mostly managed by Bank of America Corp...
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