Yeah, but will they judge what I buy with it?
It’s been underway for a while, EPI - European Payments Initiative.
Hopefully I’ll be able to rid myself of my mastercard sometime next year and just rely on Vipps/Wero. Next year is where they roll out point-of-sale across most of Europe.Are you in Norway? Every Visa and Mastercard issued by Norwegian banks should have BankAxept too. So every time you use contactless it’s BankAxept and if your bank allows Tæpping in Vipps you can use it on your phone too.
Unfortunately I’m not in Norway, but Denmark. Closest thing we have here is Dankort, but that’s tied to Visa for now, which ain’t ideal.
I thought it was independent, but just falls back to Visa or MasterCard whenever Dankort is not supported? Which is, of course, everywhere outside of Denmark…
Funny they found a way to fit Axe into payment system
MBWay works great in Portugal
If it relies exclusively on smart phones they can fuck off, they changing one overlord for another one from the same place, except this one is even shittier.
Seems like it’s Wero again. Which is American-approved smartphone exclusive.
I don’t see it as a replacement for Visa/Mastercard, only possibly Google/Apple pay and things like PayPal.
It’s becoming increasingly bizarre to me that virtually all journalists will absolutely refuse to mention Google Play and iOS exclusivity. Has anyone figured out why that is?
Stop digital ids and age verification.
Norway already has BankAxept, which works pretty good. Tæpping with Vipps is a great alternative to Apple/Google/Garmin Pay as well.
Sadly Vipps recently stopped working on degoogled android. :/
Norwegians and others affected by this should feel free to complain to them about that.
Norway is very lucky.
Can Americans use it? I want tod itch the Christian censored visa and MasterCard
Unfortunately it’s actually not even a replacement for either of those, only for Google/Apple pay realistically, since you’ll need to use a smartphone like with those. Either an iPhone, or a google-approved Android phone. So no luck I’m afraid.
Wero is based on SEPA, the Single Euro Payments Area, which only covers countries in Europe. In order to use Wero, your bank (in a SEPA country) has to explicitly support it (not all of them do; I have checking accounts with 3 banks and only one of them has announced plans to support it). And to use it when shopping, the merchant also has to support it.
Apparently there are plans to link European and Canadian payment systems. But no way the US will do this.
Americans should support trade unions and cooperatives.
