Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
by yason on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @08:59AM
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The point of NFC-on-a-phone is that you don't need the damn banking apps and internet and retailer support for all that to validate a simple transaction. My credit card has NFC, no internet and no app, and it's universal.
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Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
by palata on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @11:21AM
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> you don't need the damn banking apps
You need the Google/Apple app though, don't you? Or can you write your own personal app that will handle that?
Re:GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
by Andromxda on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @04:34PM
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There are several banks, especially over here in Europe, that have their own implementations of contactless payments, if that's what you mean. Here's a German article outlining this and mentioning a few examples: https://www.kuketz-blog.de/nfc-datenschutzfreundlich-bezahle...