> The current situation for third party apps (which do exist, plenty of them) is you either give them your Tesla account username/password (super bad) or an access token that you get by signing into your Tesla account, which is less bad but still gives the app the same access as your full Tesla account.
In 2023, I'm amazed that this is still a thing. I'm also sad that users are so uncaring about their data that they are cavalier to just provide credentials to 3rd parties just because they pinky swear they'll not be evil and the use of their app is super worth it. I still remember the first time a coworker was singing the praises of some money/finance app that I decided to try. I immediately stopped and said nope when I realized they needed my user/password to all of the banks I wanted to connect. I feel sorry for people that feel the juice is worth the squeeze, especially when they get squeezed dry. Maybe it's not the 3rd party company, but the possibility of hackers that attack said 3rd party. Just too big of an ask