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I just paid an invoice sent to me via Square. Okay, cool. Vendor says ACH preferred, saves money. I agree, yeah. Only option Square offers to pay via ACH is Plaid. Plaid wants login info to my bank, and will also access transaction history as part of the "agreement". WTF? I just want to pay one ACH transaction. Plaid also settled a class action suit for collecting data against user's will and without their knowledge? I searched around, but I can't tell if everyone is cool with just handing over their complete banking transactions, or they don't use Plaid at all? What is going on?

I recently ran into difficulty at multiple sites updating an expired credit card with a new card that has the same account number but new expiration date and code. Is there some industry reason to not simply get a new account number?

Electrical power surges were not more common in the 90's than they are now, but back then it was common to shop for highly rated surge protectors for computers and electronics, even comparing obscure performance ratings. I haven't heard the phrase "surge protector" in years. Did the tech just become so commodity that it is built in to all computer power supplies? Was it just a marketing fad?