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Better security because Intuit is a larger company? No one is invincible, see Adobe's latest incident. My major complaint with Mint is I don't get email alerts until I log into my account. Nothing gets sent to me when the event triggering the alert occurs. That is frustrating.

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Well, arguably, if I see some startup that just started doing business, I don't think I would feel as secure with them as I do with Mint - but like I said, "arguably".

The irony of this is that Mint was once a startup that simply asked you to trust them with your bank account's credentials (or at least that was my impression). I joined them way before they were owned by Intuit.

I don't believe that's the case. Alerts will still be sent without logging in. It's just that the automated checks only happen with a certain frequency, daily or so. If you log in after an alert-worthy event happens but before the automated check, you'll trigger an alert e-mail because that's when it sees the event. If you're logging in a lot, it might look like they only happen when you log in.

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