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by BoysenberryPi 1613 days 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.
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Plaid 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).
I 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.