Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yesterday I was renewing my vehicle registration through my US states website. They offered a range of payment options using embedded options on the site. The direct bank account option had the lowest fee but when I tried it I was immediately scared of the security. They used a 3rd party bank account transfer provider that asked me what bank I used and looked like it was going to prompt me for my login info before it…
When using a government website, you were intimidated by the security posture of... Plaid? (Genuine question, maybe this was some other provider but Plaid's aggregator tool is the most common place I see this pop up in real life for ACH)
I went back and checked. It was not Plaid but Trustly. I've never heard of either before but Trustly's name makes me want to trust it even less than Plaid. And I'm more concerned about all of my personal information such as my transaction history for the past 90 days being siphoned up by yet another commercial entity that can probably profit more from it than the transaction fee they would have collected.