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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by vanviegen on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @11:54AM (#48209805)
/rant? :-)

1. sounds nice though! But how do they verify that it's actually you? Just matching the photo manually? People are terrible at that. Or do they scan a fingerprint?

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Re:Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to ... by anal_reactor on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @04:30PM (#48213668)
> Just matching the photo manually?

Yes.

> People are terrible at that.

"Imperfect" doesn't mean "terrible".

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