Re:Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Bankin...
by varenc on Thursday August 19, 2021 @07:09PM
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> 2) Which raises the question about why the banks aren't blocking IP addresses that Wise uses to log into bank accounts, or at least making a complaint to Wise.
People doing screen-scraping like Plaid will seek out IPs that look innocuous. One place I heard of had bank of mobile phones all with cellular data plans hooked up to some UI automation. This lets them run screen scraping from a real phone on a real cellular network.
They pay app developers to install an SDK on their popular mobile apps, then sell the right to run network requests through users devices. Perfect if you want to do some sketchy screen scraping and need access to a lot of innocent looking IP addresses.
People doing screen-scraping like Plaid will seek out IPs that look innocuous. One place I heard of had bank of mobile phones all with cellular data plans hooked up to some UI automation. This lets them run screen scraping from a real phone on a real cellular network.
Also look at the company Luminati Networks/Bright Data: https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/mobile-residential-ips
They pay app developers to install an SDK on their popular mobile apps, then sell the right to run network requests through users devices. Perfect if you want to do some sketchy screen scraping and need access to a lot of innocent looking IP addresses.