Re:How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions
by dangero on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:03PM
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Reminder that most banks still don’t provide an oauth api for granting read only access to your account info, so we end up with scraping data and problems like this to solve. Plus there is a ton of completely unnecessary risk created here by forcing users to furnish full access credentials to their bank accounts. It’s beyond stupid.
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Re:How Plaid Reconciles Pending and Posted Transactions
by temp129038 on Friday May 31, 2019 @04:12PM
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On the other hand, it's crazy to me that we're all talking about how evil Facebook is for selling the fact that I liked "Family Guy" 15 years ago but for some reason we're all OK cheerleading a company that literally enables real-time financial surveillance on unsuspecting users with a purposefully deceitful onboarding flow that hides any mention of what permissions you're actually providing and no simple way to revoke those permission.