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Can...you elaborate on this?

• Jtsummers 3y ago
  Mint and others used to (still do? I haven't used any of these things in over a decade) take your username/password and sometimes even security questions and then use screen scraping to get transactions and balances and such. This was (is?) because many banks and CC companies didn't have proper APIs or access tokens that could offer limited access. The result was that Mint and others could, in theory, initiate transactions as you. Naturally, banks and others said, "Don't do that, and if you do you're going to lose some of your protections because you're willfully giving away your credentials."
  • syncbehind 3y ago
    Oh wow, no idea. But that's definitely a big red flag.
    • foxandmouse 3y ago
      Same, I was shocked when I found out, I only registered for mint recently and there was no warning in the sign up process.