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Freak_NLtoday at 7:58 AM1 replyview on HN

In Europe? Debit cards. Hardly anyone uses a credit card in a supermarket.

If I'm going out I'll have both a debit card and cash in my wallet. Given that large scale outages of payment networks are no longer theoretical but to be expected, not carrying cash is just silly. Since I have a wallet in any case, I see no point in using contactless payments on a smartphone — I usually don't take it with me when getting groceries.

I have no idea if I can even do contactless phone payments on GrapheneOS, but since everything else works (including my bank's app), I don't care.


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elrictoday at 8:33 AM

> In Europe? Debit cards. Hardly anyone uses a credit card in a supermarket.

Such sweeping statements are impossible for "Europe". It's a big place. Plenty of people use credit cards in supermarkets. But it's orthogonal to the discussion. A creditcard can be contactless or on a phone. Or on a watch.

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