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Got my new licence plate online a couple weeks ago, here in Germany. Two options to pay: PayPal or MasterCard. This is ridiculous.
Why tf is a government entity using paypal??
Because people use PayPal and the government entity is trying to be helpful.
but what people in Germany really use is cash or a girocard (card attached to your regular checking account).
but yes, european reliance on america is horrible, usually in addition to the girocard functionality on your card, which is usable only in germany, there’s also some mastercard or visa functionality in the card, which allows you to use the card at the very least in the SEPA area (single euro payments area, 41 countries are members, visa vpay or mastercard maestro) and in cases where you get the full mastercard or visa on top of your girocard you can of course pay worldwide with a bunch of asterisks.
that means cross-country payments with your card are locked behind america, which is why wero (europe’s new digital payment system for use in the SEPA) makes so much sense.
I wrote them an email asking about Wero and they replied that they’ll launch it soon. So let’s stay hopeful.
What is that app used for? Never heard of it
The play store description says it’s an app for multi factor authentication for various EU services. The reviews are pretty desastrous though.
Reviews are openly gamed, and worthless. I suspect that monied interests have paid to give it low scores with their ai firms, actually indians firms.
Because on Anrdoid at least, every app has a near perfect rating, with fake reviews written, and last I checked they didn’t even let you start at the worst first. On amazon it’s the same except they allow you to go to worst written reviews first as I recall.
It’s openly gamed with the assent of these companies, the platform. Like one of my podcast players, leaves a lot to be desired, especially on the search function, and can’t find episodes that exist to an incredible extent. They periodically have a pop up where they ask me to review them, Give them 5 stars, a perfect rating, or do it later, there are no other options.
how hard is it to use standard totp, why do they keep coming up with their own non standaed totp like MFA?
To get you to use an app that’s locked to the Google Play store, so they can identify you and your devices and who you interact with regularly with certainly.
That’s what your phone number and email are for; neither of which are explicitly tied to the fascism of big tech.
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