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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by Aaargh20318 on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:12AM (#17884075)
This is about linking real-world credit-card payments to your online identity. People in Europe don't use credit cards offline.
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by ginko on Friday August 31, 2018 @05:28AM (#17884125)
>People in Europe don't use credit cards offline.

That's a huge over-generalization. It's true that cash is king in Germany for instance, but Scandinavians pay almost exclusively by card.

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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by Aaargh20318 on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:23AM (#17884361)
> It's true that cash is king in Germany for instance,

Sure, Germany is a bit behind the times when it comes to paying with plastic.

> but Scandinavians pay almost exclusively by card

Same goes for the Netherlands where I live, but we don't pay by credit card, we pay by debit card.

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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by mortehu on Friday August 31, 2018 @08:59AM (#17885157)
To clarify, in US even debit cards are primarily Visa or Mastercard, whereas in Europe they're not. E.g. Norway uses BankAxept: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BankAxept
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by jeltz on Monday September 03, 2018 @11:46AM (#17903187)
And in Sweden we use Mastercard and Visa.
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by KozmoNau7 on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:29AM (#17884383)
Danish person here. We mostly pay by Dankort, which is the standard national debit card, I would bet more than 99% of card payments here are direct debit.
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by Gruklair on Friday August 31, 2018 @06:52AM (#17884470)
And with Dankort, you have the additional pleasure of being spied on by tabloid news papers.
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Re:Google and Mastercard Cut Ad Deal to Track Retail Sales by Tharkun on Friday August 31, 2018 @09:58AM (#17885605)
> People in Europe don't use credit cards offline.

What? Of course we do. If anything, Europeans are less likely to use credit cards online (though that is slowly changing), instead opting for bank transfers or online debit cards.

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