Part of me kind of wants these companies to stick to their guns. Once people start to find alternative payment methods for their adult content, maybe they'll start using those methods for everything else as well and cut Visa, Mastercard et al out of their lives completely.
It's 2025. Why are we still using cards for regular purchases? In Europe there are so many local alternative systems, which are about to start integrating with each other.
Only because there's not been any significant interest to change that. There are alternative already, American Express (which only issues cards for its own bank currently, but do have market share outside the USA), and Discover in the States. They both operate both sides of the system (issuing cards/credits and managing the underlying transaction network) whereas Visa and Mastercard only operate the network.
Visa and MasterCard are by far the largest, but there's no reason that alternatives can't succeed (even though it is unlikely).
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Part of me kind of wants these companies to stick to their guns. Once people start to find alternative payment methods for their adult content, maybe they'll start using those methods for everything else as well and cut Visa, Mastercard et al out of their lives completely.
I have never seen a bank card that doesn't use Visa or Mastercard, even if we wanted to, it would be almost impossible to use an alternative.
It's 2025. Why are we still using cards for regular purchases? In Europe there are so many local alternative systems, which are about to start integrating with each other.
Only because there's not been any significant interest to change that. There are alternative already, American Express (which only issues cards for its own bank currently, but do have market share outside the USA), and Discover in the States. They both operate both sides of the system (issuing cards/credits and managing the underlying transaction network) whereas Visa and Mastercard only operate the network.
Visa and MasterCard are by far the largest, but there's no reason that alternatives can't succeed (even though it is unlikely).
Why does it have to be a bank card?
Dig deeper. It’s not just them. They’re scared.
This dude is cool. I forgot why I subscribed to the channel tho.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHHnPLllUk&t=1093s
I apologize, but I’m not sure what your words mean. The image is good though.
I want to back before the payment service purge, should i change the title