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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by anakaine on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:23PM (#28202468)
On your point about contact less being hit-or-miss, this very much goes away when you have a number of options for vendors to choose from on the market, with terminals being supplied mainly by banks who want the business. Both competition and a lack of desire to deal with merchants having issues with the payment system provided lead to increases in reliability.

The overseas market has been saturated with chips for 10-15 years, and contact less for 5+, probably notably more.

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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by jalk on Monday August 16, 2021 @04:42PM (#28202692)
I have asked in several stores (in Denmark) where contactless doesn’t work, but the terminal has the required hardware - The merchant has to pay a fee to enable contactless. My auto mechanic bitched loudly about it, until I told him he wanted $200 for enabling “daytime running lights” in my rear lights, which is also just “flipping a bit”
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