Swiping left on magnetic stripes

Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by chousuke on Monday August 16, 2021 @05:17PM (#28203108)

Living in Europe, I genuinely had no idea cards with magnetic stripes were still in use. I thought everything used chips nowadays.

I still prefer my card for contactless payments though; using my phone is not really much more convenient since my phone case holds the card anyway and it at least works consistently.

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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by watermelon0 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @02:11AM (#28206714)

It's more convenient if you need to pay more than 25 EUR (or whatever the limit is where you live), where you need to use your PIN with contactless card.

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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by LeonidasXIV on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:54AM (#28207657)

Or you use contactless payment with your phone which then does not have a 25 EUR limit (actually I think these days it is more like 50 EUR) since the phone supplies some form of authentication, which a plain contactless card can't.

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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by watermelon0 on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @07:56AM (#28208913)

Maybe I wrongly worded it, but I meant the same thing.

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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by hvidgaard on Wednesday August 18, 2021 @04:06AM (#28218721)

Mag strip or chip, you still need your pin here. With contactless there is a limit of 50-100 EUR, and when you use Apple Pay you never have to provide a pin.

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Re:Swiping left on magnetic stripes by Accacin on Tuesday August 17, 2021 @04:48AM (#28207623)

My Monzo card has a magstripe still, but I have to enable it in the app if I want to use it.

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