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I stopped using Mint when they continued to insist i needed to fix login issues to my banks. then citibank locked me out because they saw mint was continully t

I stopped using Mint when they continued to insist i needed to fix login issues to my banks. then citibank locked me out because they saw mint was continully trying to log in. i am bearish on Mint because of this. they dont own the banks. sooner or later all the banks are going to block Mint

sg47 10y ago
Ran into the same issue with Citibank and Chase as well. I've stopped using Mint because of this. Are there good alternatives?
- uptown 10y ago
  Haven't tried it yet - but Banktivity looks promising. https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/ https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/
chimeracoder 10y ago
> then citibank locked me out because they saw mint was continully trying to log in. It gets better: if you have two-factor authentication turned on with your bank, you'll get text messages or phone calls every day in the wee hours of the morning, because Mint is trying to log in and update your account. > sooner or later all the banks are going to block Mint I don't think so - first of all, because I don't think the banks really want to block Mint. But even if they did, they couldn't. Intuit (the parent company of Mint) makes Quicken, which is very popular, and which already uses the well-support OFX protocol for synchronizing bank information. The real problem is that, eventually, banks will try to start charging users to allow software like Mint to access their accounts (some already do this with OFX).
- astrodust 10y ago
  OAuth might be annoying but at least it's an understandable and implementable way of conveying to the user what access will be granted to external applications. No standard will ever exist in the banking world because banks. They're their own worst enemy.
  - koolba 10y ago
    > No standard will ever exist in the banking world because banks. They're their own worst enemy. On the contrary, there will be many competing "standards" because banks.

sg47 10y ago

Ran into the same issue with Citibank and Chase as well. I've stopped using Mint because of this. Are there good alternatives?

uptown 10y ago
Haven't tried it yet - but Banktivity looks promising. https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/ https://www.iggsoftware.com/banktivity/

chimeracoder 10y ago

> then citibank locked me out because they saw mint was continully trying to log in. It gets better: if you have two-factor authentication turned on with your bank, you'll get text messages or phone calls every day in the wee hours of the morning, because Mint is trying to log in and update your account. > sooner or later all the banks are going to block Mint I don't think so - first of all, because I don't think the banks really want to block Mint. But even if they did, they couldn't. Intuit (the parent company of Mint) makes Quicken, which is very popular, and which already uses the well-support OFX protocol for synchronizing bank information. The real problem is that, eventually, banks will try to start charging users to allow software like Mint to access their accounts (some already do this with OFX).

astrodust 10y ago
OAuth might be annoying but at least it's an understandable and implementable way of conveying to the user what access will be granted to external applications. No standard will ever exist in the banking world because banks. They're their own worst enemy.
- koolba 10y ago
  > No standard will ever exist in the banking world because banks. They're their own worst enemy. On the contrary, there will be many competing "standards" because banks.