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		yencabulator on July 12, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Second factor SMS: Worse than its reputation Plaid is a cancer of the payment system. It's amazing how they're trying to normalize entering your banking credentials into their third-party site.

kevincox on July 12, 2024 [–]

It's not even their site as far as the user can tell. It is a full-screen iframe. At least if it was their site a bank could say "plaid.com is fine". Still bad to make acceptable domains more than one but at least it isn't infinite.

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