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Plaid for Ecommerce

https://byrnie.io
submitted this linkon July 28, 2020
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    Holy shit

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    This looks interesting, can you explain more about what problem it solves and for who?

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    Cool idea, but I have questions about the legality of this. More than likely, this is doing a headless login using the users credentials on the various ecommerce sites (similar to what Plaid did in the early days to "login" to various banks). While it may not be explicitly banned in the terms for each of the sites, it's definitely a grey area.

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      Curious about "(similar to what Plaid did in the early days to "login" to various banks)", would you have a link to the source ?

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        https://qz.com/1784765/the-seeds-of-visas-5-3-billion-acquisition-of-plaid-were-planted-more-than-a-year-ago/

        Before Plaid got direct integration with each bank API, they would simply load headless browser sessions and use the user’s login credentials to authenticate. Fairly insecure but it seems to have worked for them!

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