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I hope there was too easy

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[-] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Part of me kind of wants these companies to stick to their guns. Once people start to find alternative payment methods for their adult content, maybe they'll start using those methods for everything else as well and cut Visa, Mastercard et al out of their lives completely.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I have never seen a bank card that doesn't use Visa or Mastercard, even if we wanted to, it would be almost impossible to use an alternative.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Only because there's not been any significant interest to change that. There are alternative already, American Express (which only issues cards for its own bank currently, but do have market share outside the USA), and Discover in the States. They both operate both sides of the system (issuing cards/credits and managing the underlying transaction network) whereas Visa and Mastercard only operate the network.

Visa and MasterCard are by far the largest, but there's no reason that alternatives can't succeed (even though it is unlikely).

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

It's 2025. Why are we still using cards for regular purchases? In Europe there are so many local alternative systems, which are about to start integrating with each other.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Why does it have to be a bank card?

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Dig deeper. It’s not just them. They’re scared.

This dude is cool. I forgot why I subscribed to the channel tho.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk&t=1093s

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I apologize, but I’m not sure what your words mean. The image is good though.

[-] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago

I want to back before the payment service purge, should i change the title

this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2025

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