Apparently, some used this technique for actual commercial services, which was partly motivation (they called it "screen scraping") for the European Commission'

Apparently, some used this technique for actual commercial services, which was partly motivation (they called it "screen scraping") for the European Commission's recent directive to require banks to allow authorized third-party access to customer account data. https://paymentscompliance.com/premium-content/insights_analysis/payment-initiation-and-screen-scraping-legal-tussle-heart-psd2 https://paymentscompliance.com/premium-content/insights_anal...