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Re:Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager by oarsinsync on Monday September 09, 2019 @10:11AM (#20918336)
Mint is another example of a popular financial management tool, that was always cloud-first. It would import transactions by using the same credentials you would use to login to online banking. This wasn't appealing to me. This didn't deter many other people.
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Re:Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager by aeorgnoieang on Monday September 09, 2019 @12:35PM (#20919702)
I didn't like sharing my credentials either but I was using it – until it stopped working for most of my accounts.

I've since stopped using even the 'manual import' and I've found that reconciling to my bank/financial-company statements manually is much easier overall as importing auto-reconciled transactions but then it was basically impossible to then match any specific balance reported by the bank/financial-company.

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Re:Firefly III – Self-hosted financial manager by not_a_cop75 on Monday September 09, 2019 @06:00PM (#20922955)
To be fair, Mint was a mistake. It was always a mistake. Being ahead of hackers' time, it was successful. This is the only reason.
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