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by phoenixy1 5y ago
Sorry you got hit by that! I work at Plaid -- most of Plaid's APIs can be used without a $500 monthly minimum contract but a few of them do require it -- we know this is a pain point and are currently looking into how can make pricing
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
Hi, I'm a little late to the party, but I saw this and I do work at Plaid, so I thought I might be able to help answer. First disclaimer: I am definitely not a lawyer. However, the basic premise that banks' liability guarantees ar
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
> Plaid mines your account advertising (as it says in their TOS/Privacy policy) and shares that info with whoever they want. FWIW I think this is a slight misinterpretation of our privacy policy. The section on advertising basically
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
I'm sorry for the experience you've been having with support and 2fa -- we're actively investing to improve the story on both of those. Capital One support has been minimal in the past, but it actually should work MUCH better
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
Good question! No, we don't. Our official statement on this is at https://plaid.com/how-we-handle-data/ "Plaid only shares your data with your consent. We don’t share your personal information without your pe
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
[Discloure: I work at Plaid] Teller is a much smaller company and operates mostly in Europe, whereas Plaid is much bigger and operates mostly in the US, so this is really an apples and oranges comparison, especially as the ecosystem of conn
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
I know, right? I tried Venmo, PayPal, my own bank...none of them offer it. Even though my bank is one of the biggest banks in the country that has a great online banking portal and my boyfriend and I bank at the same place. Not everybody
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by phoenixy1 5y ago
Oooh, this is relevant to my interests! Some banks do have APIs -- U.S. Bank, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Chase are a couple that spring to mind off the top of my head -- but in general they are not really aimed at developers building
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by phoenixy1 7y ago
I didn't read the article as blaming tech. The main takeaway for me was the astonishing under-resourcing of investigation and prosecution of these crimes. If the government can't be bothered to investigate 98% of the child sex a