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That is not that interesting. It's something everyone realizes when they try make a budgeting app. Plaid decided to break the rules to create a product. They collected end users authentication details and pretended to be them to scrape data from financial institutions.



Risking every penny I own by trusting credentials with Plaid is a worthwhile trade off for having to deal with my bank’s website less.




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