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TD Bank files lawsuit against Plaid, accusing it of trying to “dupe” consumers (2020)

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Re: TD Bank files lawsuit against Plaid, accusing it of trying to “dupe” consumers (2020)

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The crazy thing is, I was recently looking for a simple financial tracking app, and MOST of them required you to log in with your bank ID and password. I thought it was insane to give a third party that kind of access, but it was hard to find an app that didn't almost require that as a core functionality for it to work.

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Re: TD Bank files lawsuit against Plaid, accusing it of trying to “dupe” consumers (2020)

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What did you end up selecting? And do you know how it accesses the necessary financial data?

Frustratingly I still haven't found anything. There was a guy actually who posted a kind of Progressive Web App here on Hacker News to solve this exact problem. It stored everything in local storage in the browser. It's really cool, but it was hard to see stuff on the desktop, as there was no link to the phone. Also you had to enter everything manually, which was OK for me. I'm still searching. I personally am lookin…

You might want to try Actualbudget.com which has local native apps and the option for E2E encryption, but does not automatically import transactions (though I believe CSV import is supported).

Re: TD Bank files lawsuit against Plaid, accusing it of trying to “dupe” consumers (2020)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Frustratingly I still haven't found anything. There was a guy actually who posted a kind of Progressive Web App here on Hacker News to solve this exact problem. It stored everything in local storage in the browser. It's really cool, but it was hard to see stuff on the desktop, as there was no link to the phone. Also you had to enter everything manually, which was OK for me. I'm still searching. I personally am lookin…

You might want to try Actualbudget.com which has local native apps and the option for E2E encryption, but does not automatically import transactions (though I believe CSV import is supported).

Thanks for the link. I downloaded it and am checking it out :)
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