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[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 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

Edit: just confirmed, they did this to pass rate limiting, not due to lack of API access. They also stopped 1-2 years ago

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 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.

[-] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 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

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