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I am surprised Plaid is a business. It is a bunch of scripts of dubious security. How businesses are coming on board with that is worrisome. On the other hand,
by desireco42 6y ago
I am surprised Plaid is a business. It is a bunch of scripts of dubious security. How businesses are coming on board with that is worrisome.
On the other hand, if we could have standard API and let people integrate services, totally welcome that. But let's not pretend this is anything like that.
If you know something more, please educate me.
- themacguffinman 6y agoConsider it market proof of how much demand there was for API integration that this suboptimal hack was viable. "Proper" APIs will follow; For example, Fidelity built a proper system (Fidelity Access) in response to all the screen scraping. The Fed is now also standardizing some kind of API I think.
- desireco42 6y agoThat is what I mean. They have investors, if business model is such that can disappear in few year, what is the point of investing in them.