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If screen scraping is illegal just know that pretty much every budget and banking app is also illegal because they all use screen scraping.
by BoysenberryPi 5y ago
If screen scraping is illegal just know that pretty much every budget and banking app is also illegal because they all use screen scraping.
- vineyardmike 5y agoPlaid and the like now have API agreements with many of the major US banks, and are cutting down on their scraping usage (because its obviously unsustainable).
- BoysenberryPi 5y agoI would like to know who "the like" include because as far as I know it's just Plaid and maybe Intuit doing this. Until banks provide APIs directly to developers this just gives Plaid a monopoly. All devs who want to make finance apps securely have to go through Plaid.