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I can't understand how anyone feels comfortable giving up that type of information.

• prepend 3y ago
  I feel the same way. The first time years ago Mint asked for my login and promised to keep it safe, although providing no accountability if they were breached, I noped out and thought their product was doomed. Now tons of places use it. The privacy policy I read for plaid is interesting in that it would allow for things like monitoring my balances and velocity of cash flow and then selling that data, at least to plaid partners, which is pretty much everyone. I cynically think the push to “authenticate” with these financial deep inspection tools is to be able to identify more lucrative customers. I do have a zero dollar checking account that I give out and just push cash into to pay bills that I can use. The biggest risk of losing those account credentials is to mess up bill pay or to have them apply for credit or something.