• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Are you talking about tap to pay? My credit union, and all of my credit cards don’t use that feature unfortunately. I’ve used Google Pay a few times, but I have privacy concerns with that service.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah that’s it! My credit union doesn’t support it either but I was able to add to Apply Pay anyway.

      I get the privacy concerns though. I feel a little safer with it because it further blocks the actual card and the card’s sensitive numbers from prying eyes while out in public. But I can get how you’d feel trusting the corporation, whether it be Apple or Google or Samsung with it in their digital possession.

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      1 year ago

      It’s so funny hearing Americans talk about a feature that has been standard in Canada for almost a decade.

      Like, we are usually the ones way behind with Uber and various other similar technology services. So not sure what happened on this one.

      • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        All of my wife’s cards have it, and I’d say probably 90% of the POS terminals support it, but somehow none of my cards have the chip. My credit union said they’re working on it, but they’re a tiny little place, so that’s understandable. What I don’t understand is why my Capitol One and Discover cards don’t have them. Maybe they offer it now and I just need to request a new card, but that sounds too much like work.