• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    More industry insight: walls of phones like this is how company’s like Plaid operate for connecting to banks that don’t have APIs.

    Plaid is the backend for a lot of customer to buisness financial services, including H&R Block, Affirm, Robinhood, Coinbase, and a whole bunch more

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      5 months ago

      No way!! Can’t find anything about it online - is this info by the way of insiders? Thanks for sharing, would have NEVER guessed. Not even that they’d have to use Selenium much less device farms.

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        5 months ago

        Yup insider info they definitely don’t want public. Just confirmed the phone farms were to bypass rate limit, although they do use stuff like Selenium for API-less banks