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Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by julianeon on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:47PM (#23242801)
This reminds me of that Upton Sinclair quote: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.'

I think banks benefit from a certain amount of sloppiness. Get hit by a finance charge here, accumulating unnecessary interest on a credit card there? Who cares! Let the bank handle it, don't worry, banking should be convenient...

So despite endless paeans to customer service and 'community' and whatever horns the banks are tooting these days, seeing how you spend your money simply remains difficult.

By design.

Which is why the fix is not coming, and never will be coming, unless you implement it yourself.

Because it is difficult to get a bank to build a tool when the bank's profits are improved by them not building it.

Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by slavoingilizov on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @07:22AM (#23245559)
You're overestimating banks abilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
Re:Simple Personal Finance Tracking with GnuCash by TeMPOraL on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @10:16AM (#23247023)
I don't think it applies. Your bank's website and app are two best places they can use to upsell you their financial products. Exposing the data in a sane way would cut directly into their profits.