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"Scammers have adapted": Valve confirms that physical Steam Gift Cards are dead. Once the current stocks are sold through, they're done. (www.windowscentral.com)
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[–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Steam takes debit in certain regions. And a debit card, from the point of view of what private information is managed, is identical to a credit card. Many debit cards now even allow international use.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Sadly I'm not in one of those regions. Here are my available options:

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (1 child)

    What provider is your debit card using? Is it not MasterCard or Visa? I'm genuinely curious, there are very few countries not duopolized by these two giants.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    It's called Maestro, which is owned by MasterCard. Which doesn't help however since it has no credit card number

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    Ah! I have one of those too. It's being retired soon, though, and banks using it are now do the switch to MasterCard for newly issued cards.

    (Maestro is a MasterCard brand)

    Edit: Nevermind, not every country is retiring Maestro as of today.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    New Maestro Card haven't been issued in a while. If you'd replace that card now, you'd likely get one cobranded girocard/MasterCard instead of girocard/Maestro. Works just like a credit card online. There's a few banks thag issue girocards with no cobranding, but that's rare.

    Even most Sparkassen have started giving out a cobranded Master/Visa by default.

    So what you said was true 10 years ago, but likely isn't/soon won't be anymore.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (1 child)

    You have way more than I do, with more flexibility. Definitely not tied to Visa and MasterCard. Skrill for example, accepts crypto and debit. PaySafe I think is outside of the Visa network and takes debit for prepaid cards as well.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I took a look at it. Skrill is just Paypal with crypto. And I already excluded data brokers. I could maybe create a pipeline by buying monero, to charge my Skrill account, to then charge my Steam account. But that's just too much of a hassle when FitGirl is right around the corner.

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