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Yes they are and yes it is, but every other budgeting tool is going to ask for the same.
by 0xffff2 7y ago
Yes they are and yes it is, but every other budgeting tool is going to ask for the same.
- alistairSH 7y agoYeah, I can't think of another way to do this, but one breach and all my financial accounts are leaked? That's not something I can risk.
- lotsofpulp 7y agoIt also boggles my mind that people are willing to give others their login credentials, even so far as to give all of their login credentials to one entity!
- SmirkingRevenge 7y agoIt's been normalized. Even banks that explicitly prohibit user/pw sharing with external tools in their ToS (every one of them basically), will often have aggregation features in their portals that require you to enter the user/pw for the external accounts you want to connect. They might even have back-end API's that allow other aggregators programmatic access to your data, that require your user/pw to auth. But don't share your user/pw with anyone, they say!
- 0xffff2 7y agoI mean, I can think of ways, the banks would have to actually implement them though. Why my bank doesn't let me generate account tokens the same way GitHub does is beyond me.